Rendall, Michael;
Ekert-Jaffé, Olivia;
Joshi, Heather;
Lynch, Kevin;
Mougin, Rémi;
Ekert-Jaffe, Olivia;
Mougin, Remi;
(2009)
Universal versus economically polarized change in age at first birth : a French–British comparison.
Population and Development Review
, 35
(1)
pp. 89-115.
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Abstract
France and the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s represented two contrasting institutional models for the integration of employment and motherhood: The ‘universalistic’ regime type offering subsidized child-care and maternity-leave benefits at all income levels; and the ‘means-testing’ regime type mainly offering income-tested benefits for single mothers. Using the two countries as comparative case studies, we develop and test the hypothesis that the socio-economic gradient of fertility timing has become increasingly mediated by family policy. We find increasing polarization in age at first birth by pre-childbearing occupation in the U.K. but not in France. Early first births persisted in the U.K. only among women in low-skill occupations, while shifts towards increasingly late first births occurred in clerical/secretarial occupations and above. Age at first birth increased across all occupations in France, but was still much earlier on average than for all but low-skill British mothers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Universal versus economically polarized change in age at first birth : a French–British comparison |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10006106 |
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