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Table 8 Employment status and transition to motherhood with control for time-varying union status. 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)

Calendar time (ref. before 1980)

 1980–1989

0.645 (0.027)

***

0.582 (0.032)

***

0.726 (0.048)

***

 1990–1999

0.561 (0.025)

***

0.501 (0.029)

***

0.636 (0.045)

***

 2000–2009

0.588 (0.028)

***

0.540 (0.033)

***

0.608 (0.047)

***

 2010–2016

0.591 (0.034)

***

0.538 (0.039)

***

0.617 (0.057)

***

Parental education (ref. primary)

 Lower secondary

0.838 (0.028)

***

0.856 (0.037)

***

0.847 (0.046)

***

 Upper secondary/tertiary

0.767 (0.031)

***

0.794 (0.040)

***

0.782 (0.056)

***

Area of resid. (ref. North/Centre)

 South

1.029 (0.031)

     

Place of birth (ref. Italy)

      

 Foreign country

1.087 (0.043)

**

1.300 (0.061)

***

0.827 (0.064)

**

Ever migrated (ref. no)

 Yes

0.955 (0.079)

 

1.124 (0.139)

 

0.679 (0.096)

**

Education (ref. upper secondary)

 Still studying

0.440 (0.024)

***

0.426 (0.031)

***

0.476 (0.041)

***

 Up to lower secondary

0.994 (0.032)

 

1.020 (0.042)

 

0.883 (0.046)

**

 Tertiary

1.098 (0.047)

**

1.056 (0.055)

 

1.084 (0.082)

*

Union status (ref. not in union)

 In union

13.894 (0.475)

***

10.800 (0.472)

***

21.075 (1.151)

***

Employment (ref. not employed)

 Employed

0.889 (0.028)

**

0.998 (0.047)

 

0.968 (0.046)

 
  1. Source: Author’s elaboration on FSS 2016 data
  2. *p < 0.10; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01. Sample sizes: Italy = 9229; Northern/Central Italy = 5606; Southern Italy = 3623