Welfare Regimes and Fertility in Second Unions

Soto, Mariana; Fostik, Ana Laura; Laplante, Benoı̂t

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48519-1_9

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“…These results are consistent with the faster pace of re-partnering by economically fragile women (Fisher and Zhu, 2019). In some cases, this phenomenon may depend on the aid and support provided by generous welfare systems (Fernández-Soto et al, 2020), but the evidence from the US suggests that this cannot be the only explanation. Deeper inquiry into the relationship between socioeconomic conditions of re-partnered couples and their fertility is therefore needed.…”

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Re-partnering and fertility

Luppi¹,

Migheli²,

Pronzato³

2023

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European divorce rates have been on the rise since the 1970s. At the same time, as more couples opt for cohabitation over marriage, there has been an increase in separations among cohabiting partners. Nearly 50% of separated individuals form new relationships within five years. These trends may have implications for fertility research. Are re-partnered mothers more likely to continue bearing children than never-separated mothers? Does quick re-partnering lead to the recovery of births “lost” due to separation? To answer these questions, we use longitudinal data from 2004 to 2018 for 32 European countries. We find that mothers in higher order unions are - on average – more likely to have one more child than those who already have children with their current partner. The former seem to be less burdened by already having children and less concerned about family income. Our data show that if separation occurs at a relatively young age and re-partnering occurs relatively quickly, then births lost to union dissolution can be recovered.

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Re-partnering and fertility

Luppi¹,

Migheli²,

Pronzato³

2023

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“…It is generally accepted among scholars that the difference in fertility between developed countries that support working mothers, promote gender equality, and facilitate reconciliation between family and work, and those that don't do it is explained by the existence and effectiveness of these measures taken as a whole. Research supporting this interpretation is based on comparisons between countries (Harknett et al, 2014 ; Fernández Soto et al, 2020 ; Wesolowski, 2020 ; B ein et al, 2021 ) or between jurisdictions within a country (Hook & Paek, 2021 ).…”

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Policy and Fertility, a Case Study of the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan

Laplante

2024

Popul Res Policy Rev

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In 2006, the Quebec government implemented a parental leave program more generous than the scheme available through the Canadian federal Employment Insurance (EI) program. It was aimed at maintaining the personal disposable income after a birth, especially for women whose income exceeds the maximum insurable earnings of EI. In this article, we assess whether the implementation of the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP) was associated with an increase in the fertility in Quebec, especially for highly educated women. We use data from the rotating panels of the Canadian Labor Force Survey. We test the effect of the implementation of the QPIP on fertility by comparing Quebec and Ontario, which kept the federal EI scheme, before and after the implementation of the QPIP. We adapt the difference in differences method (DiD) to the modeling of the fertility schedule using Poisson regression. We estimate fertility by educational levels within each of the four groups of the DiD design by integrating the estimated fertility schedules. Our results show that the implementation of the QPIP was associated with an increase in fertility in Quebec. The magnitude of the increase varies by educational levels: 17% for women who did not complete secondary education, 46% for those who completed it, and 27% for women who earned a university diploma.

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Union Instability and Fertility: An International Perspective

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In this article, we analyse the relationship between union instability and cumulated fertility among ever-partnered women in several regions across Europe and the Americas with different patterns of demographic behaviour in terms of fertility levels, union instability and fertility across partnerships. We hypothesise that the relationship between union dissolution and fertility might be less negative in contexts where repartnering is more prevalent. The analysis is performed on a large dataset of 25 countries, combining information from the Harmonised Histories of the Generation and Gender Programme with our own harmonisation of survey data from three Latin American countries. This allows for the inclusion of countries with differing prevalence of union instability as measured by (a) the proportion of women who separated by age 40, and (b) the proportion who repartnered by age 40. We first examine the prevalence of separation and repartnering during reproductive ages across regions, and we estimate the proportion of cumulated fertility attributable to unions of different ranks using a decomposition method. We then analyse the links between union instability and the number of children born by age 40 among ever-partnered and ever-repartnered women, using Poisson regression. Despite observing a high degree of heterogeneity in the proportions of births occurring in the context of repartnering both within and between regions, we find a pattern where a greater prevalence of repartnering by age 40 is accompanied by higher cumulated fertility in second or subsequent unions. Our multivariate findings reveal a negative statistical relationship between separation and cumulated fertility that is partially offset by repartnering in some contexts, and that the time spent in a union during the reproductive lifespan is a key determinant of cumulated fertility, regardless of national context and independently from age at union formation and union rank.

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Welfare Regimes and Fertility in Second Unions

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Re-partnering and fertility

Re-partnering and fertility

Policy and Fertility, a Case Study of the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan

Union Instability and Fertility: An International Perspective

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