Women's employment and childbearing in post-industrialized societies : the fertility paradox / / Daniel Dinale

• Autore: Dinale Daniel
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), charts
• Soggetto topico: Women - Employment; Fertility, Human
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Competing Interests -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Fertility Paradox: More Working Women, More Babies -- 1.1 The Relationship Between Production and Reproduction in Historical Context -- 1.2 The Bygone Era of Fertility: More Working Women, Fewer Babies -- 1.3 A New Era in Fertility: More Working Women, More Babies -- Why Is This the Case? -- 1.4 Solving the Fertility Paradox: An Employment Relations Perspective -- 1.5 Why Is the Fertility Paradox Important? -- 1.6 Plan of the Book -- The Need for A Retheorisation: Inadequacy of Traditional Explanations of Demographic Change -- Retheorising the Relationship Between Production and Reproduction: Multi-institutional Gender Equality as a Way Forward -- Flexible Service-Oriented Labour Markets -- Gender Egalitarian Social Policy and Welfare State Institutions -- Equitable Division of Household Labour -- The Future of Fertility -- Chapter 2: Traditional Explanations for the Fertility Paradox -- 2.1 The Three Theories of Transition: Traditional Explanations of the Fertility Paradox -- Gary Becker´s New Home Economics -- Preference Theories -- Second Demographic Transition (SDT) Theory -- 2.2 Going Beyond the Three Theories of Transition -- 2.3 Towards a New Model to Explain the Fertility Paradox -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Gender Egalitarianism as a New Model -- 3.1 Industrial Relations Institutions and Labour Market Structures -- General Versus Specific Skilling Systems -- Wage Determination Regimes -- 3.2 Labour Market Structures: Criticisms of Gendered Comparative Institutional Theory -- Limited Attentiveness to Class Differentiation -- Static Economic Functionalist Approach of Gendered Comparative Institutional Theory -- Social Policy Blindness of Gendered Comparative Institutional Theory. ; 3.3 Welfare State and Social Policy Factors Influencing the Nexus Between Female Labour Force Participation and Fertility Rates -- Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) -- Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) -- Family Policy -- Public Sector Employment -- 3.4 Household Gender Relations (Family-Oriented Institutions) Influencing the Nexus Between Female Labour Force Participation ... -- Rational Choice Theory: Household Division of Labour -- Cultural Lag of Gender Equity in Household Gender Relations -- The Incomplete Gender Revolution -- 3.5 Institutional Interactions: Bargaining Theory and Macro-institutional Determinants of the Fertility Paradox -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Building a New Model to Explain the Fertility Paradox -- 4.1 Building a New `Institutional Interdependency´ Model -- 4.2 Selection of National Case Studies -- 4.3 Case Study Policy Analysis -- 4.4 Quantitative Methods: Selection of Variables -- Chapters 5-7: Labour Market Structures and Industrial Relations Policy -- Chapter 8-10: Public Policy and Welfare States -- Chapter 11: Household Gender Dynamics -- 4.5 Quantitative Methods: Data Analysis, Estimation and Interpretation -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Service Economy, General Skills and the Rise of Women -- 5.1 Post-industrialisation, the Service Economy and the Rise of Women -- 5.2 Sectoral Change: From Industry to Services -- 5.3 Women, the Service Sector, Skills and Employment Flexibility -- 5.4 Skill Specificity and Women in Different Occupational Classifications -- 5.5 Analysis -- Skill Specificity and FLFP -- Skill Specificity and Fertility Rates -- Variable Description and Summary of Hypothesised Effects -- 5.6 Results -- Skill Specificity and FLFP Rates -- Skill Specificity and Fertility Rates -- ISCO-08 Occupations (Digit-II) and Fertility Rates -- 5.7 Conclusion. ; Chapter 6: Employment Protection Legislation and Flexible Labour Markets -- 6.1 Employment Protection Legislation as a Public Policy Response to Skill Specificity -- 6.2 Employment Protection Legislation Regulatory Framework Systems -- Germany´s Stringent and Broad Employment Protection Legislation Framework -- Danish Flexicurity Employment Protection Legislation Framework -- Flexible Labour Markets and Weak U.S. Employment Protection Legislation -- Deviating from Liberal Expectation: Australia´s Employment Protection Legislation Framework -- 6.3 Employment Protection and Vertical Segregation -- 6.4 Analysis -- Employment Protection and FLFP -- Employment Protection and Fertility Rates -- Variable Description and Summary of Hypothesised Effects -- 6.5 Results -- EPL and FLFP Rates -- EPL and Fertility Rates -- EPL, Vertical Segregation (ISCO-08, Managers) and Women -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Wage Dispersion and Private Sector Substitutes for Unpaid Household Work -- 7.1 Weak Employment Regulation, Wage Dispersion and the Production of Low Cost Human Services -- 7.2 Wage Dispersion and the Fertility Paradox Across Nations -- Low Cost Labour and Wage Dispersion in the U.S. -- Wage Dispersion and Australia´s High Minimum Wage and Award System -- High Union Density, Collective Bargaining and Wage Compression in Denmark -- Restricted Public Childcare and Wage Compression in Germany -- 7.3 Analysis -- Wage Inequality and Female Labour Force Participation -- Wage Inequality and Fertility Rates -- Variable Description and Summary of Hypothesised Effects -- 7.4 Results -- Wage Inequality and FLFP Rates -- Wage Inequality and Fertility Rates -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Defamiliarising Family Benefits and Leave Policies -- 8.1 Overall Family Benefit Expenditures -- 8.2 `Services and In-Kind Benefits´ -- 8.3 `Child-Related Cash Benefits´. ; 8.4 `Tax Breaks for Children´ -- 8.5 Parental and Maternity Leave Length and Generosity Variation -- 8.6 Analysis -- Family Policy and FLFP -- Family Policy and Fertility Rates -- Variable Descriptions and Summary of Hypothesised Effects -- 8.7 Results -- 8.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Dual-Earner Oriented pro-Employment Policies -- 9.1 ALMPs and the Four Case Study Nations -- Danish ALMPs: Full-Employment Model -- German ALMPs: Fiscal Constraints and Slow Turn to Activation -- U.S. ALMPs: Behaving in Standard Liberal Expectation -- Australian ALMPs: Converging with Liberal Expectation -- 9.2 Analysis -- ALMPs and FLFP Rates -- ALMPs and Fertility Rates -- Variable Description and Summary of Hypothesised Effects -- 9.3 Results -- ALMPs and FLFP Rates -- ALMPs and Fertility Rates -- 9.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Large Female-Friendly, Service-Oriented Public Sectors -- 10.1 Historical Institutional Legacies and Public Sector Employment Variation -- Denmark´s Service-Oriented Social Democratic Model of Public Employment -- Germany´s Frugal Masculine Bureaucracy -- U.S. Public Sector: Limited Public Social Service Provision through Marketisation -- Australian Public Sector: Limited Social Services despite Health and Education Growth -- 10.2 Analysis -- Public Sector Employment and FLFP -- Public Sector Employment and Fertility Rates -- Variable Description and Summary of Hypothesised Effects -- 10.3 Results -- Public Sector Employment and FLFP -- Public Sector Employment and Fertility Rates -- 10.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Equitable Division of Unpaid Household Labour -- 11.1 Conceptualising Cross-National Variations in Household Gender Inequality -- 11.2 Household Gender Inequality across the Four Case Study Nations -- 11.3 Results and Findings -- Analysis -- Household Gender Inequality and FLFP -- Household Gender Inequality and Fertility Rates. ; The Embedded Bargaining Model and Household Gender Inequality -- 11.4 Results -- Household Gender Inequality and FLFP -- Household Gender Inequality and Fertility Rates -- Interactive Effects Between Household Gender Inequality, Comparative Capitalist and Welfare State Institutions -- 11.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 12: The Future of Fertility and Female Employment -- 12.1 Institutional Interdependency: An Employment Relations Perspective on the New Era of Fertility -- 12.2 Limitations and Directions for Future Research -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book discusses the relationship between women's labour force participation and fertility rates in developed nations. It shows a positive relationship between women's workforce participation and childbirth. It theorises a new approach to explaining this 'fertility paradox' that looks at institutional factors influencing gender equality in developed nations. The book analyses a range of institutional variables that impact the positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates, including labour market institutions, social policies and welfare state institutions (family policies, active labour market programs and public sector employment) as well as household gender dynamics. Written for both academics and policy-makers, this book has theoretical relevance for research on gender and work, and also for policies aimed at increasing women's employment and redressing low fertility, which are important issues in many developed nations.
• Altri titoli varianti: The fertility paradox
• Titolo autorizzato: Women's Employment and Childbearing in Post-Industrialized Societies
• ISBN: 3-031-46098-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910767523803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II