abstract: 'This paper analyses how unstable employment influences becoming a mother

  in Italy and Spain. Results suggest that institutional factors foster

  dynamics of social inequality and hinder family formation. We show that

  in southern Europe (Italy and Spain), but not in other institutional

  contexts, the lack of employment stability produces a delay in fertility

  decision. We attribute this impact of the employment situation on

  demographic decisions to the sub-protective southern European welfare

  systems and the insider-outsider labor market configuration, as enhanced

  by the partial and targeted labor market deregulations of recent

  decades. In the context of low levels of welfare, unstable employment

  often comes with persistently reduced entitlement to social and welfare

  rights, and, therefore, with notable social and demographic

  consequences. We provide support for this institutional argument by

  showing that fertility decisions are independent of employment stability

  in other contexts. Analyses are based on longitudinal data using event

  history analysis and simultaneous equation models.'
affiliation: 'Bozzon, R (Corresponding Author), Univ Trento, Dept Sociol \& Social
  Res, Trento, Italy.

  Barbieri, Paolo; Bozzon, Rossella; Scherer, Stefani; Grotti, Raffaele; Lugo, Michele,
  Univ Trento, Dept Sociol \& Social Res, Trento, Italy.'
author: Barbieri, Paolo and Bozzon, Rossella and Scherer, Stefani and Grotti, Raffaele
  and Lugo, Michele
author-email: rossella.bozzon@gmail.com
author_list:
- family: Barbieri
  given: Paolo
- family: Bozzon
  given: Rossella
- family: Scherer
  given: Stefani
- family: Grotti
  given: Raffaele
- family: Lugo
  given: Michele
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/14616696.2015.1064147
eissn: 1469-8307
files: []
issn: 1461-6696
journal: EUROPEAN SOCIETIES
keywords: 'welfare and labor market; employment precariousness and family

  formation; insider-outsider divide'
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; IMPACT; TRANSITIONS; INEQUALITY; CONTRACTS; COUNTRIES;

  MARRIAGE; POLICIES; EVENTS; GENDER'
language: English
month: AUG 8
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '57'
orcid-numbers: 'Bozzon, Rossella/0000-0001-8532-9507

  BARBIERI, PAOLO/0000-0002-5493-6029'
pages: 423-446
papis_id: dad7ce071df750c2c213917cff9ab038
ref: Barbieri2015riselatin
researcherid-numbers: 'Bozzon, Rossella/AAT-9656-2021

  BARBIERI, PAOLO/X-2531-2019'
times-cited: '52'
title: THE RISE OF A LATIN MODEL? FAMILY AND FERTILITY CONSEQUENCES OF EMPLOYMENT
  INSTABILITY IN ITALY AND SPAIN
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000369767600003
usage-count-last-180-days: '5'
usage-count-since-2013: '21'
volume: '17'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2015'