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Sobotka, Tomáš

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“…There are two noticeable aspects to the evolution of fertility patterns in eastern Germany following the unification of the country in 1990. The first is the very well known drop in fertility rates to levels below those of the old federal states (from 1.6 in 1989to 0.8 in 1994Adler 1997: 41); this steep drop of fertility is a characteristic pattern observed in almost all eastern European countries after the fall of the socialist regimes and has been attributed to the rapid social and economic changes, the economic crisis and the previously unknown high levels of unemployment 1 (Sobotka 2002). In this context the rapid decline in eastern German birth rates is not surprising.…”

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Perceptions of job instability and the prospects of parenthood. A comparison between Eastern and Western Germany

Bernardi¹,

Klärner²,

Lippe³

2006

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This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the economic determinants of fertility behavior by addressing the role of job insecurity in couples' intentions concerning parenthood and its timing. It starts from the hypothesis that cultural values moderate individuals' reactions to job insecurity and the way in which it is related to family formation. With a systematic thematic content analysis of a set of semi-structured interviews with childless men and women around the age of thirty in eastern and western Germany, we are able to show that there are substantial differences in the consequences that job insecurity has on intentions to have a first child. These differences are mainly due to different expectations about the interaction between work and family careers and differences in the way in which priorities within a life course perspective are defined. In western Germany, a relatively secure job career is expected to precede family formation and this sequence of transitions is rather rigid, whereas in eastern Germany job security and family formation are thought of and practiced as parallel investments. We suggest that the lack of convergence in family formation patterns between eastern and western Germany after the unification of the country in 1990 is partially related to different attitudes towards job insecurity in the two contexts.

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Perceptions of job instability and the prospects of parenthood. A comparison between Eastern and Western Germany

Bernardi¹,

Klärner²,

Lippe³

2006

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Kreyenfeld

2003

European Journal of Population/ Revue Europenne De Dmographie

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Similar to other Eastern European countries, East Germany experienced a rapid decline in period fertility rates after the fall of communism. This decline has been discussed along the lines of a 'crisis' and a 'adaptation' to western demographic patterns. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we discuss the factors which foster and hamper a convergence of fertility behavior in East and West Germany. Secondly, we use data from the German micro-census to analyze the fertility patterns of the cohorts born 1961-1970. Major results from our empirical analysis are that East Germans who are still childless at unification are more rapid to have their first child in the subsequent years than comparable West Germans. However, regarding second parity births, the pattern reverses. Here, East Germans display a lower transition rate than their counterparts in the West.

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Population geography: does geography matter in fertility research?

Boyle

2003

Progress in Human Geography

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I Population geography and fertilityPopulation geography has traditionally focused on the three themes of fertility, mortality and migration (Jones, 1990). However, a simple perusal of the last few years of the International Journal of Population Geography, the only population journal explicitly devoted to geographical population issues, demonstrates that this is no longer the case. In particular, papers on fertility are virtually non-existent, barring a few notable exceptions (

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Perceptions of job instability and the prospects of parenthood. A comparison between Eastern and Western Germany

Perceptions of job instability and the prospects of parenthood. A comparison between Eastern and Western Germany

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Population geography: does geography matter in fertility research?

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