Table 4.

Transition to Second Births, Employment Conditions and Very Short-term Contracts (ECHP 1994–2000).

	(1) All	(2) Low Educated	(3) Mid Educated	(4) High Educated	(5) Southern Europe
Individual Level Variables
Woman Employment (re: Inactive)
Work (t-7)	−0.180** (2.58)	−0.391* (2.40)	0.114 (1.11)	−0.217 (1.59)	−0.261* (2.01)
Unemployed (t-7)	−0.139* (2.16)	−0.177+ (1.91)	−0.109 (1.22)	−0.041 (0.28)	−0.142 (1.64)+
Public Sector (if work (t-7)=1)	0.302** (4.84)	0.380* (2.19)	0.294** (3.20)	0.232* (2.27)	0.254* (2.17)
Part-time (if work (t-7)=1)	0.129* (2.00)	0.189 (1.16)	−0.108 (1.03)	0.303* (2.52)	0.068 (0.44)
Self-employed (if work (t-7)=1)	0.078 (0.75)	0.357+ (1.68)	−0.320+ (1.73)	0.192 (1.21)	0.234 (1.51)
Very Short Contract (if work (t-7)=1)	−0.223** (3.00)	−0.204 (1.28)	−0.159 (1.33)	−0.257+ (1.86)	−0.228+ (1.71)
Country Level Variables
Female Unemployment rate (t-12)	−0.043+ (1.83)	−0.114** (3.27)	−0.006 (0.15)	−0.014 (0.31)	−0.047* (1.98)
Person-month	160,451	56,370	59,255	39,116	77,811
Subjects	6,112	2,103	2,354	1,702	2,604
Failures	2,493	725	931	744	853

Note: Sample includes women in 12 European countries whose first births occurred on January 1992 or after. Coefficients from Cox Proportional Hazard models. All columns include the same demographic characteristics in Table 3 (presence of a partner, marital status, education and work income of the woman and her partner, place of birth, sex of previous child, age at first birth), country level variables (share of government employment and its square, maternity leave, log income per capita) as well as year, monthly and country dummies. Exposure to second birth starts at the time of the first birth. Robust z statistics from errors clustered by duration since exposure in parentheses:

⁺significant at 10%;

^*significant at 5%;

^**significant at 1%. All country variables are lagged one year and individual variables are lagged seven-months.