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Career Planning in Spain: Do temporary contracts delay marriage and motherhood?

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  • De la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara
  • Iza Padilla, María Amaya

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The aim of this paper is to find an empirical connection between the impressive increase in the use of temporary contracts in Spain and the observed increase in age at marriage and maternity. Using a pool of the six available waves of individual information from the European Household Panel for Spain, we find that holding temporary contracts rather than permanent ones delays marriage for males, but not for females. Concerning maternity, the labor market situation of both members of the household affects entry into motherhood. In particular, if woman has a temporary contract rather than a permanent one, motherhoods is delayed independently of the husband's contract. As expected, postponement of maternity is not found for non-working women. These results give strong support to the career planning, motive to delay maternity in Spain, given that an unstable labor market situation of female workers is found to be the main deterrent to entry into motherhood.

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  • De la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara & Iza Padilla, María Amaya, 2003. "Career Planning in Spain: Do temporary contracts delay marriage and motherhood?," DFAEII Working Papers 1988-088X, University of the Basque Country - Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II.
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    Cited by:

    1. Lynn Prince Cooke, 2009. "Policy Effects on Class-Gender Employment Intersections," LIS Working papers 522, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    2. Rocio Sánchez-Mangas & Virginia Sánchez-Marcos, "undated". "Reconciling female labor participation and motherhood: the effect of benefits for working mothers," Studies on the Spanish Economy 195, FEDEA.

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