Open AccessSelected socio-economic factors co-occurring with high fertility rate in the OECD countries
Author(s) -
Ryszard Murkowski
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
badania operacyjne i decyzje/operations research and decisions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2081-8858
pISSN - 1230-1868
DOI - 10.37190/ord210305
Subject(s) - fertility , total fertility rate , birth rate , developed country , work (physics) , demographic economics , vocational education , cluster (spacecraft) , developing country , economics , eu countries , family planning , economic growth , demography , european union , population , sociology , research methodology , economic policy , mechanical engineering , computer science , engineering , programming language
This article presents the results of examining selected factors co-occurring with high fertility rate in developed countries. Selected OECD countries at a similar stage of demographic development have been subjected to analysis. By means of 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 family policy in relation to 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 clearly 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.