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Two New Studies Deepen Our Understanding of the Link between Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes
18 Feb 2026

Two New Studies Deepen Our Understanding of the Link between Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes

Two recent publications by Sander Wagner (Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science) provide new evidence on how becoming a mother affects women’s careers, and why these effects matter for gender inequality more broadly. Both studies draw on large-scale administrative labour market data from France and Germany that were harmonised by the authoring team under a DFG–ANR research grant, with the aim of making cross-national research using administrative records more feasible.
New Study Finds Gender Equality Linked to Modest Fertility Rebound – But Not Enough to Reverse Long-Term Decline
20 Nov 2025

New Study Finds Gender Equality Linked to Modest Fertility Rebound – But Not Enough to Reverse Long-Term Decline

A new study from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science reassesses whether rising gender equality can help reverse falling birth rates, a long-standing theory in demography. The research, published in Demographic Research, revisits a prominent 2019 study by Martin Kolk and offers fresh evidence that improvements in gender equality can lead to a modest fertility recovery, but only under specific conditions and not enough to counter broader declines.

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Monday, 01 January 2001
Ermisch, J. (2001) “Family Theory: Economics of Childbearing”, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier.
Friday, 01 December 2000
Nieuwbeerta, P., de Graaf, N. and Ultee, W. (2000) “The effects of class mobility on class voting in post-war western industrialized countries”, EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 16(4), pp. 327–348.
Friday, 01 September 2000
Ermisch, J. and Francesconi, M. (2000) “The Increasing Complexity of Family Relationships: Lifetime Experience of Lone Motherhood and Stepfamilies in Great Britain”, European Journal of Population, 16(3), pp. 235–249.
Saturday, 01 April 2000
De Graaf, N., De Graaf, P. and Kraaykamp, G. (2000) “Parental cultural capital and educational attainment in the Netherlands: A refinement of the cultural capital perspective”, SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION, 73(2), pp. 92–111.
Wednesday, 01 March 2000
Ermisch, J. and Francesconi, M. (2000) “Cohabitation in Great Britain: not for long, but here to stay”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), 163(2), pp. 153–171.
Wednesday, 01 March 2000
Mills, M. (2000) “Providing Space for Time”, Time & Society, 9(1), pp. 91–127.
Saturday, 01 January 2000
Ermisch, J. and Francesconi, M. (2000) “Educational Choice, Families, and Young People’s Earnings”, The Journal of Human Resources, 35(1), pp. 143 – 143.
Saturday, 01 January 2000
Graaf, N. and Need, A. (2000) “Losing Faith: Is Britain Alone?”, in British Social Attitudes: The 17th Report. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 119–136.
Thursday, 23 September 1999
Nieuwbeerta, P. and De Graaf, N. (1999) “2 Traditional Class Voting in Twenty Postwar Societies”, in The End of Class Politics? Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 23–56.
Wednesday, 01 September 1999
Lehto, M. et al. (1999) “High frequency of mutations in MODY and mitochondrial genes in Scandinavian patients with familial early-onset diabetes.”, Diabetologia, 42(9), pp. 1131–1137.
Tuesday, 01 June 1999
Ermisch, J. and Jenkins, S. (1999) “Retirement and housing adjustment in later life: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey”, Labour Economics, 6(2), pp. 311–333.
Friday, 01 January 1999
Ermisch, J. (1999) “Prices, Parents, and Young People’s Household Formation”, Journal of Urban Economics, 45(1), pp. 47–71.
Friday, 01 January 1999
Ermisch, J. and Huff, W. (1999) “Hypergrowth in an East Asian NIC: Public policy and capital accumulation in Singapore”, World Development, 27(1), pp. 21–38.
Friday, 01 January 1999
Van Berkel, M. and De Graaf, N. (1999) “By virtue of pleasantness? Housework and the effects of education revisited”, Sociology, 33(4), pp. 785–808.
Friday, 01 January 1999
De Graaf, N. (1999) “Event history data and making a history out of cross-sectional data: How to answer the question ’why cohorts differ?’”, Quality and Quantity, 33(3), pp. 261–276.
Tuesday, 01 December 1998
Graaf, N. and Inglehart, R. (1998) “Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies”, The British Journal of Sociology, 49(4), pp. 674–674.
Thursday, 01 October 1998
Van Egmond, M., De Graaf, N. and Van der Eijk, C. (1998) “Electoral participation in the Netherlands: Individual and contextual influences”, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, 34(2), pp. 281–300.
Friday, 01 May 1998
Ermisch, J. (1998) “Unemployment Risk, the Housing Market and the Effects of Decentralised Redistribution”, International Tax and Public Finance, 5(2), pp. 187–202.
Sunday, 01 March 1998
Van Berkel, M. and De Graaf, N. (1998) “Married women’s economic dependency in The Netherlands, 1979-1991.”, The British journal of sociology, 49(1), pp. 97–117.
Thursday, 01 January 1998
Van Egmond, M., De Graaf, N. and Van Eijk, C. (1998) “Electoral participation in the Netherlands: Individual and contextual influences”, European Journal of Political Research, 34(2), pp. 281–300.