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Combining Market Work and Family

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Population, Economy, and Welfare in Sweden

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In an international perspective, Sweden had by 1990 come to look like something of an outlier with regard to women’s participation in market work and fertility rates. The female labour force participation rate for women aged 20–64 amounted to about 86 per cent. This was only about 5 percentage points lower than the male participation rate and it was the highest female participation rate among the industrialised countries. High participation rates did not, however, keep women from having babies. The (period-based) fertility rate decreased from the mid-1960s onwards, but after 1983 it started to increase again.1 At around 2.1 per mille by 1990, it surpassed the fertility rates of most other European countries. Clearly, Swedish women were having it both — combining market work with having and raising a family.

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  1. Christina Jonung
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  1. Department of Economic History, University of Lund, P.O.Box 70 83, S-22007, Lund, Sweden

    Tommy Bengtsson

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Jonung, C., Persson, I. (1994). Combining Market Work and Family. In: Bengtsson, T. (eds) Population, Economy, and Welfare in Sweden. Population Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85170-4_3

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