Selected socioeconomic factors co-occurring with high fertility rate in the OECD countries

• Authors: MURKOWSKI Radosław
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article presents the results of examining selected factors co-occurring with high fertility rates in developed countries. Selected OECD countries at a similar stage of demographic development have been subjected to analysis. Employing cluster analysis, the selected developed countries have also been identified according to the type of adopted family policy. It has been found that the developed countries which spend more on the family policy concerning GDP are generally characterised by higher fertility rates than those which spend less. In the light of those findings, the family-policy expenditures which allow women to reconcile professional work with raising children turned out to be particularly important. The fertility rate has also been found to correlate with labour market rates, with the level of women’s professional activity in particular. Moreover, in the developed countries the relatively high fertility rate is accompanied by low rates of young people who do not work or attend school and are not in vocational training, as well as a high rate of extramarital births.

Keywords

EN

family policy; total fertility rate; employment ratio of women; public social expenditure on families

• Publisher: Politechnika Wrocławska. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
• Journal: Operations Research and Decisions
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 89-108

Contributors

author

MURKOWSKI Radosław

• Department of Business Activity and Economic Policy, Poznań University of Economics and Business, al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.37190/ord210305