Fertility, full-time and part-time female employment in Europe

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Cristina Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Isabel Tiago de, Pinto, Maria Luis Rocha, Cabrita, Miguel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/3655
• topic: Fertility; Female employment; Part-time employment; Full-time employment

This paper aims to analyse the relation between women’s employment patterns, more specifically part-time employment, and fertility trends in European countries, using Eurostat data. It is argued that this approach sheds an innovative light on the debate. The issue of part-time employment is put into perspective in the context of family policies and gender relations. The fertility/employment relationship shows that the overall positive association between fertility and female employment is a consequence of the importance of part-time employment and is not related with full-time employment. Therefore, the change in sign of the fertility employment association after the 1980s could result from the increasing diversification of the labour market.