In a new article in Social Science Research, I follow more than 2,600 women in the UK from before their first pregnancy to several years after it. In the year after a loss, women's hourly pay is about 6 to 7% lower than before, even though they work the same hours.
What happens to a woman's working life after a pregnancy loss?
Up to one in five or six recognised pregnancies ends in a loss. We know a lot about how having a child changes women's careers, but we know very little about what happens when a pregnancy ends without one.
Our paper "Sleeping With the Enemy" is featured this weekend in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
In hi article (how much opposition can love bear?), Sebastian Herrmann uses our study to make the point that political difference between partners has stopped being only a matter of taste.
When do people in the UK have their first child, and are they married, cohabiting, or single at that time?
Do these patterns vary by parents’ social class and birth cohort?
Read the open-access article in @DemographicRes. demographic-research.org/art…
Second, Brexit had an impact by itself. The 2016 referendum is a case study to examine the effects of emerging political cleavages.
We found that couples with opposing views on Brexit (eg., Remain vs. Leave) had a higher risk of union dissolution.
Relationships are often built on shared values and beliefs, but what happens when political preferences create a divide?
@brunoarpinoEU and I investigated how political (mis)match affects union dissolution in @ReadDemography
doi.org/10.1215/00703370-119…
In the last couple of years, I’ve explored how involuntary pregnancy loss and live birth impact mental and physical health. Two recent articles - published in Population Development Review and European Journal of Public Health - shed light on these topics.
Flat real wages in Japan and Italy in the last twenty years.
Likely explanations: Union bargaining, reluctance to tech innovation, adverse demography, etc ...
Aging societies are doomed by lower productivity, hence lower wages.
Though often seen as unavoidable and involuntary, redundancies can have negative effects on workers up to a year before they occur. This is may be due to rumors and union negotiations that make them widely known.
This gap between children of separated and non-separated parents is narrowing over time at high but not at low social classes. Is some full compensation of social class emerging with respect to the risk of union dissolution? Not yet, but in the future....
Union dissolution is passed from one generation to another for social, cultural and, possibly, genetic reasons. If your parents broke up, you are more likely to separate or divorce too.
Is this "reproduction of separation/divorce" moderated by parents' class? Not really...
We also explore these effects by couples' income, partners' earnings division, number of children, and women's age. The consequences of job loss do not fall entirely on the groups that are considered by the literature as the most disadvantaged and/or prone to job loss.
How does a job loss affect couples' fertility? If women lose their job, a birth is less likely to happen for at least 5 years. If men lose their job, the effect is smaller.
In an open access article on @JMF_NCFR, Oliver Lipps and I show new evidence for the UK and Germany.
Un Paese in cui le autorità parlano di demografia in questo modo ha probabilmente ancora molto da scavare prima di acquisire consapevolezza del proprio futuro
The motherhood gap in repartnering is only found for lower edu women - for high edu women, motherhood does not make a difference. Interesting to note in the fig below is that a low edu mother has ~ the same prob to enter a cohabitation as a high edu non-mother. Why?
Our paper on the stratified income losses following unemployment has been selected for @ESR_news virtual special issue on "Social inequalities and cohesion". Free access till the end of the year.
Sociologists love the concept of cumulative disadvantage. But sometimes it's off: In terms of income losses, unemployment hits the upper-middle class just as hard as the working class. Check out the new panel evidence by @aledinal & #D_Oesch at @ESR_news! academic.oup.com/esr/advance…
