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.
