Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92086 
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Year of Publication: 
2000
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ISER Working Paper Series No. 2000-26
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University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
In 1999, nearly two-fifths of births in Britain were outside marriage. This study estimates the impact of employment opportunities in the local labour market on the probability that a childless never married woman has a birth outside marriage. It uses the unemployment rate in the travel-to-work area in which the woman lives as the indicator of employment opportunities. The estimates indicate poorer employment opportunities increase the pre-marital first birth rate and discourage union formation.
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Working Paper

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