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  • The former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe experienced a sudden and substantial decline in fertility after the transition to market economy. This study investigates the relation between economic uncertainty, human capital characteristics and social support on the transition to first birth and the intention of having a first or second child in Estonia after the transition. Results show that higher educated women who participate in the labor market postpone childbirth after the transition, indicating that the opportunity costs of having a child have risen. Furthermore women in an uncertain labor market position (as indicated by a higher number of unemployment spells) have higher intentions of having a first child, which supports the hypothesis of uncertainty reduction that women choose the domestic role of housewife and mother as an alternative ‘career’ when labor market perspectives are bleak. Women who have one child already have lower fertility intentions when faced with an uncertain labor market position, this is also found for households with lower perceived income, couples where the male partner is not in full‐time employment and households with debts. Support received from the social network and especially from friends is associated with the intention of having a second child. (xsd:string)
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  • The Relation of Fertility to Economic Uncertainty, Human Capital Characteristics, and Social Support in Post‐Communist Estonia (xsd:string)
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  • Youth on Globalised Labour Markets: Rising Uncertainty and its Effects on Early Employment and Family Lives in Europe (xsd:string)
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  • In Youth on Globalised Labour Markets: Rising Uncertainty and its Effects on Early Employment and Family Lives in Europe, Barbara Budrich, 2011 (xsd:string)
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