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The association between women’s fertility and employment has received considerable attention in the social science literature, which documents significant variation in the observed correlations across time and between welfare states (Ahn and Mira 2002). Moreover, the employment–fertility nexus has been shown to vary by gender: mothers might suffer from limited opportunities for paid employment under the same institutional regime that allows for positive income effects of fatherhood, for example.
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Hank, K., Korbmacher, J.M. (2011). Reproductive History and Retirement: Gender Differences and Variations Across Welfare States. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Hank, K., Schröder, M. (eds) The Individual and the Welfare State. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17472-8_14
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