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Table 5 Employment status and transition to motherhood over time, only women who have never worked for more than 6 months in the macro-area opposite to that they live in at the time of the interview. Cox models, HRs are reported with standard errors in brackets

From: Female employment and first childbirth in Italy: what news?

 

Italy (whole country)

Northern/Central Italy

Southern Italy

HR (std. error)

HR (std. error)

HR (std. error)

Employed (ref. not employed)

0.831 (0.052)

***

0.836 (0.066)

**

0.865 (0.101)

 

Calendar time (ref. before 1980)

 1980–1989

0.598 (0.033)

***

0.504 (0.042)

***

0.704 (0.053)

***

 1990–1999

0.400 (0.024)

***

0.362 (0.031)

***

0.458 (0.037)

***

 2000–2009

0.401 (0.025)

***

0.392 (0.036)

***

0.436 (0.038)

***

 2010–2016

0.336 (0.028)

***

0.344 (0.042)

***

0.361 (0.041)

***

Employed * 1980–1989

1.110 (0.090)

 

1.189 (0.126)

 

1.174 (0.169)

 

Employed * 1990–1999

1.201 (0.099)

**

1.189 (0.127)

*

1.246 (0.190)

 

Employed * 2000–2009

1.320 (0.109)

***

1.253 (0.135)

**

1.222 (0.184)

 

Employed * 2010–2016

1.526 (0.158)

***

1.372 (0.194)

**

1.502 (0.265)

**

  1. Models control for parents’ education, place of birth, respondent’s education
  2. Source: Author’s elaboration on FSS 2016 data
  3. *p < 0.10; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01. Sample sizes are the same as in Table 4