This volume studies female labour market behaviour and fertility: Contributions are from experts in the field of demography, econometrics, economics, (social) psychology, and sociology. The rational-choice framework has been used to integrate these contributions.

Inhalt

1. Editors' Introduction.- I: Theoretical Points of Departure.- 2. Understanding the Interdependence between Parallel Careers.- 3. Social Approval, Fertility and Female Labour Market.- II: Preferences.- 4. De Gustibus Confusi Sumus ?.- 5. Shortcuts as Pitfalls ? Ways of Measuring Childbearing Preferences and Intentions.- 6. Motivation of Reproductive Behaviour and the Professional Motivation of Women.- 7. A Purposeful Behaviour Theory of Work and Family Size Decisions.- III: Restrictions.- 8. A Biographic/Demographic Analysis of the Relationship between Fertility and Occupational Activity of Women and Married Couples.- 9. Labour Market Restrictions and the Role of Preferences in Family Economics.- IV: Confrontation of Preferences and Restrictions: The Construction of Theoretical Models.- 10. Economic Models of Women's Employment and Fertility.- 11. Models of Female Labour Market Supply, with Special Reference to the Effects of Children.- 12. Children and Female Labour Supply: A Survey of Econometric Approaches.- 13. How Economics, Psychology and Sociology Might Produce a Unified Theory of Fertility and Labour Market Participation.- V: Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility.- 14. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship between Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility.- References.- Author index.- Curricula Vitae.