On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the intention to have a first child: The case of west Germany

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We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partners' conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partnership quality. We assume that a satisfactory partnership is positively associated with the intention to have a first child. The analyses are based on a subsample of the German Generations and Gender Survey. For men we found a direct effect of income and an indirect effect of job security satisfaction on childbearing intentions, whereas for women no direct and only a weak indirect impact of precarious work could be observed. © 2011 Ina Berninger, Bernd Weiß & Michael Wagner.

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Berninger, I., Weiß, B., & Wagner, M. (2011). On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the intention to have a first child: The case of west Germany. Demographic Research, 24, 579–610. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.24

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