Caroline Berghammer
Biographic Data
| ID | 122959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Berghammer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Berghammer |
| SIGNATURE | BERGHAMMER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4955-8729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 400 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Is single parenthood increasingly an experience of less-educated mothers? A European comparison over five decades
BACKGROUND: A central question in family research is whether parents’ social disadvantages, such as being a single parent or having low education, are becoming more concentrated over time. OBJECTIVE: We contribute to this literature by examining long-term trends in the gap in single parenthood between more educated and less-educated mothers since the 1970s to around 2015, placing special emphasis on children’s age. METHODS: To this end, we rely o…
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States
We study how the education gap in unemployment has evolved by gender and age groups across 28 European countries and the United States from 2000 to 2014, using the European Union's Labour Force Surveys and the US Current Population Surveys. During and after the Great Recession, the absolute education gap in unemployment expanded in almost all countries, which was mainly driven by a marked increase in the unemployment risk among low educated men. …
Religiosity and the realisation of fertility intentions: A comparative study of eight European countries
Previous studies have consistently shown that religious persons both intend and have more children than their non‐religious peers. However, it is yet unknown whether their higher number of children entirely reflects their higher intentions or whether religious persons also realise their intentions more often than non‐religious individuals. By including different geographical regions—four countries from Western Europe and four countries from Centr…
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries
A sizeable portion of parents say they lack time with children—an important social problem given that time strains link to parental well‐being. Extending perspectives on the demands and rewards of parenting beyond the individual level, we provide a contextual‐level window onto mothers' and fathers' time strains. Based on data from the European Quality of Life Survey 2016/17 ( n = 5,898), we analyze whether parents feel they spend enough time cari…
The Part-Time Revolution: Changes in the Parenthood Effect on Women's Employment in Austria across the Birth Cohorts from 1940 to 1979
Comparing employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria, we address the question of whether the parenthood effect on employment has declined. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we can study both the short-term and long-term consequences of having a child. We consider employment participation as well as working time and als…
The Gap Between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach
We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly used a period approach. We compare the mean intended number of children among young women aged 20 to 24 (born in the early 1970s), measured during the 1990s in the Fertility and Family Surveys, with data on completed fertility in the same cohorts around age 40. In a simila…
Looking Beyond the Church Tax: Families and the Disaffiliation of Austrian Roman Catholics
This study aims to understand the reasons why Roman Catholics leave the church based on the example of Austria, a country with high rates of disaffiliation since the 1980s. Although previous research focused mainly on the church tax, this study provides a more comprehensive analysis based on a mixed-methods approach that reveals the central relevance of the family in the process. We began by conducting and analyzing 19 qualitative interviews with…
Contextualizing the Education Effect on Women's Employment: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
The authors examine how and why the effect of education on women's employment varies cross-nationally. First, they present a theoretical model that (a) outlines the micro-level mechanisms underlying education effects on women's employment in the couple context and (b) proposes contextual moderators at the country level. Second, they test the theoretical model against survey data from the United Nations' Generations and Gender Programme for 5 Euro…
Developing a Concept of Muslim Religiosity: An Analysis of Everyday Lived Religion among Female Migrants in Austria
In this article, we generate a concept of Muslim religiosity based on narrations reflecting Muslim women’s everyday lived religion in Austria. Using Grounded Theory, we analysed 30 biographical interviews conducted in 2006 with first-generation female migrants from Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In agreement with prior studies, we emphasise that Muslim religiosity is multi-dimensional. According to our results, it consists of a belief and a behav…
Cohabitation and marriage in Austria: Assessing the individualization thesis across the life course
Although cohabitation has spread rapidly in Austria during the past decades, it is more a prelude than an alternative to marriage. The individualization thesis serves as a conceptual framework for explaining the rise of cohabiting unions
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
The return of the male breadwinner model? Educational effects on parents' work arrangements in Austria, 1980-2009
This study examines how the educational level of parents with children below age six affects their work arrangements. Based on Austrian microcensus data from 1980 to 2009, multinomial logistic regression models are used to investigate changes in this effect. The findings show converging trends between different educational groups. Couples with children below the age of three whose mothers are highly educated increasingly turn away from the dual b…
Keine Zeit für Kinder? Veränderungen in der Kinderbetreuungszeit von Eltern in Deutschland und Österreich / No Time for Children? Changes in Parents’ Child Care Time in Germany and Austria
Dieser Beitrag verwendet Daten der Zeitbudgetstudien aus Deutschland (1991/92 und 2001/02) und Österreich (1992 und 2008/09), um Trends in der Kinderbetreuungszeit von Eltern mit Kindern unter sechs Jahren darzustellen. Mittels Dekompositionsanalysen wird bestimmt, welche Prozesse für diese Trends verantwortlich sind, nämlich entweder reale Änderungen in der Zeit, die Eltern sich für ihre Kinder nehmen (Verhaltensänderungen), oder strukturelle Ve…
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Church attendance and childbearing: Evidence from a Dutch panel study, 1987-2005
While researchers have often found that Europeans who report faith-based beliefs or practices have larger families than those who do not, there is a lack of evidence on the reasons for these links. This study investigated whether having a first child affects parents' level of church attendance and whether the frequency of church attendance at different times in life predicts a person's (almost) completed fertility. Drawing on five waves of a larg…
Family Life Trajectories and Religiosity in Austria
A growing body of research documents the persistent relevance of religiosity for partnership and reproductive behaviour in Europe. This study expands the current knowledge by analysing whole union and fertility trajectories—i.e. entering cohabitation versus direct marriage, non-marital childbearing, number of children, divorce—instead of focusing on single events as previous research did. It is based on data from the first wave of the Austrian Ge…
The Educational Gradient of Childbearing within Cohabitation in Europe
Nearly every European Country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in ei…
Religious Socialisation and Fertility: Transition to Third Birth in The Netherlands
The Educational Gradient of Childbearing within Cohabitation in Europe
Nearly every European Country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in ei…
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
The Gap Between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach
We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly used a period approach. We compare the mean intended number of children among young women aged 20 to 24 (born in the early 1970s), measured during the 1990s in the Fertility and Family Surveys, with data on completed fertility in the same cohorts around age 40. In a simila…
The return of the male breadwinner model? Educational effects on parents' work arrangements in Austria, 1980-2009
This study examines how the educational level of parents with children below age six affects their work arrangements. Based on Austrian microcensus data from 1980 to 2009, multinomial logistic regression models are used to investigate changes in this effect. The findings show converging trends between different educational groups. Couples with children below the age of three whose mothers are highly educated increasingly turn away from the dual b…
Contextualizing the Education Effect on Women's Employment: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
The authors examine how and why the effect of education on women's employment varies cross-nationally. First, they present a theoretical model that (a) outlines the micro-level mechanisms underlying education effects on women's employment in the couple context and (b) proposes contextual moderators at the country level. Second, they test the theoretical model against survey data from the United Nations' Generations and Gender Programme for 5 Euro…
Church attendance and childbearing: Evidence from a Dutch panel study, 1987-2005
While researchers have often found that Europeans who report faith-based beliefs or practices have larger families than those who do not, there is a lack of evidence on the reasons for these links. This study investigated whether having a first child affects parents' level of church attendance and whether the frequency of church attendance at different times in life predicts a person's (almost) completed fertility. Drawing on five waves of a larg…
The Part-Time Revolution: Changes in the Parenthood Effect on Women's Employment in Austria across the Birth Cohorts from 1940 to 1979
Comparing employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria, we address the question of whether the parenthood effect on employment has declined. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we can study both the short-term and long-term consequences of having a child. We consider employment participation as well as working time and als…
Family Life Trajectories and Religiosity in Austria
A growing body of research documents the persistent relevance of religiosity for partnership and reproductive behaviour in Europe. This study expands the current knowledge by analysing whole union and fertility trajectories—i.e. entering cohabitation versus direct marriage, non-marital childbearing, number of children, divorce—instead of focusing on single events as previous research did. It is based on data from the first wave of the Austrian Ge…
Religious Socialisation and Fertility: Transition to Third Birth in The Netherlands
Keine Zeit für Kinder? Veränderungen in der Kinderbetreuungszeit von Eltern in Deutschland und Österreich / No Time for Children? Changes in Parents’ Child Care Time in Germany and Austria
Dieser Beitrag verwendet Daten der Zeitbudgetstudien aus Deutschland (1991/92 und 2001/02) und Österreich (1992 und 2008/09), um Trends in der Kinderbetreuungszeit von Eltern mit Kindern unter sechs Jahren darzustellen. Mittels Dekompositionsanalysen wird bestimmt, welche Prozesse für diese Trends verantwortlich sind, nämlich entweder reale Änderungen in der Zeit, die Eltern sich für ihre Kinder nehmen (Verhaltensänderungen), oder strukturelle Ve…
Developing a Concept of Muslim Religiosity: An Analysis of Everyday Lived Religion among Female Migrants in Austria
In this article, we generate a concept of Muslim religiosity based on narrations reflecting Muslim women’s everyday lived religion in Austria. Using Grounded Theory, we analysed 30 biographical interviews conducted in 2006 with first-generation female migrants from Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In agreement with prior studies, we emphasise that Muslim religiosity is multi-dimensional. According to our results, it consists of a belief and a behav…
Religiosity and the realisation of fertility intentions: A comparative study of eight European countries
Previous studies have consistently shown that religious persons both intend and have more children than their non‐religious peers. However, it is yet unknown whether their higher number of children entirely reflects their higher intentions or whether religious persons also realise their intentions more often than non‐religious individuals. By including different geographical regions—four countries from Western Europe and four countries from Centr…
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries
A sizeable portion of parents say they lack time with children—an important social problem given that time strains link to parental well‐being. Extending perspectives on the demands and rewards of parenting beyond the individual level, we provide a contextual‐level window onto mothers' and fathers' time strains. Based on data from the European Quality of Life Survey 2016/17 ( n = 5,898), we analyze whether parents feel they spend enough time cari…
Looking Beyond the Church Tax: Families and the Disaffiliation of Austrian Roman Catholics
This study aims to understand the reasons why Roman Catholics leave the church based on the example of Austria, a country with high rates of disaffiliation since the 1980s. Although previous research focused mainly on the church tax, this study provides a more comprehensive analysis based on a mixed-methods approach that reveals the central relevance of the family in the process. We began by conducting and analyzing 19 qualitative interviews with…
Cohabitation and marriage in Austria: Assessing the individualization thesis across the life course
Although cohabitation has spread rapidly in Austria during the past decades, it is more a prelude than an alternative to marriage. The individualization thesis serves as a conceptual framework for explaining the rise of cohabiting unions
Is single parenthood increasingly an experience of less-educated mothers? A European comparison over five decades
BACKGROUND: A central question in family research is whether parents’ social disadvantages, such as being a single parent or having low education, are becoming more concentrated over time. OBJECTIVE: We contribute to this literature by examining long-term trends in the gap in single parenthood between more educated and less-educated mothers since the 1970s to around 2015, placing special emphasis on children’s age. METHODS: To this end, we rely o…
Religious Socialisation and Fertility: Transition to Third Birth in The Netherlands
The Educational Gradient of Childbearing within Cohabitation in Europe
Nearly every European Country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in ei…
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Church attendance and childbearing: Evidence from a Dutch panel study, 1987-2005
While researchers have often found that Europeans who report faith-based beliefs or practices have larger families than those who do not, there is a lack of evidence on the reasons for these links. This study investigated whether having a first child affects parents' level of church attendance and whether the frequency of church attendance at different times in life predicts a person's (almost) completed fertility. Drawing on five waves of a larg…
Family Life Trajectories and Religiosity in Austria
A growing body of research documents the persistent relevance of religiosity for partnership and reproductive behaviour in Europe. This study expands the current knowledge by analysing whole union and fertility trajectories—i.e. entering cohabitation versus direct marriage, non-marital childbearing, number of children, divorce—instead of focusing on single events as previous research did. It is based on data from the first wave of the Austrian Ge…
Keine Zeit für Kinder? Veränderungen in der Kinderbetreuungszeit von Eltern in Deutschland und Österreich / No Time for Children? Changes in Parents’ Child Care Time in Germany and Austria
Dieser Beitrag verwendet Daten der Zeitbudgetstudien aus Deutschland (1991/92 und 2001/02) und Österreich (1992 und 2008/09), um Trends in der Kinderbetreuungszeit von Eltern mit Kindern unter sechs Jahren darzustellen. Mittels Dekompositionsanalysen wird bestimmt, welche Prozesse für diese Trends verantwortlich sind, nämlich entweder reale Änderungen in der Zeit, die Eltern sich für ihre Kinder nehmen (Verhaltensänderungen), oder strukturelle Ve…
Developing a Concept of Muslim Religiosity: An Analysis of Everyday Lived Religion among Female Migrants in Austria
In this article, we generate a concept of Muslim religiosity based on narrations reflecting Muslim women’s everyday lived religion in Austria. Using Grounded Theory, we analysed 30 biographical interviews conducted in 2006 with first-generation female migrants from Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In agreement with prior studies, we emphasise that Muslim religiosity is multi-dimensional. According to our results, it consists of a belief and a behav…
Cohabitation and marriage in Austria: Assessing the individualization thesis across the life course
Although cohabitation has spread rapidly in Austria during the past decades, it is more a prelude than an alternative to marriage. The individualization thesis serves as a conceptual framework for explaining the rise of cohabiting unions
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
The return of the male breadwinner model? Educational effects on parents' work arrangements in Austria, 1980-2009
This study examines how the educational level of parents with children below age six affects their work arrangements. Based on Austrian microcensus data from 1980 to 2009, multinomial logistic regression models are used to investigate changes in this effect. The findings show converging trends between different educational groups. Couples with children below the age of three whose mothers are highly educated increasingly turn away from the dual b…
Contextualizing the Education Effect on Women's Employment: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
The authors examine how and why the effect of education on women's employment varies cross-nationally. First, they present a theoretical model that (a) outlines the micro-level mechanisms underlying education effects on women's employment in the couple context and (b) proposes contextual moderators at the country level. Second, they test the theoretical model against survey data from the United Nations' Generations and Gender Programme for 5 Euro…
Looking Beyond the Church Tax: Families and the Disaffiliation of Austrian Roman Catholics
This study aims to understand the reasons why Roman Catholics leave the church based on the example of Austria, a country with high rates of disaffiliation since the 1980s. Although previous research focused mainly on the church tax, this study provides a more comprehensive analysis based on a mixed-methods approach that reveals the central relevance of the family in the process. We began by conducting and analyzing 19 qualitative interviews with…
The Gap Between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach
We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly used a period approach. We compare the mean intended number of children among young women aged 20 to 24 (born in the early 1970s), measured during the 1990s in the Fertility and Family Surveys, with data on completed fertility in the same cohorts around age 40. In a simila…
The Part-Time Revolution: Changes in the Parenthood Effect on Women's Employment in Austria across the Birth Cohorts from 1940 to 1979
Comparing employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria, we address the question of whether the parenthood effect on employment has declined. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we can study both the short-term and long-term consequences of having a child. We consider employment participation as well as working time and als…
Religiosity and the realisation of fertility intentions: A comparative study of eight European countries
Previous studies have consistently shown that religious persons both intend and have more children than their non‐religious peers. However, it is yet unknown whether their higher number of children entirely reflects their higher intentions or whether religious persons also realise their intentions more often than non‐religious individuals. By including different geographical regions—four countries from Western Europe and four countries from Centr…
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries
A sizeable portion of parents say they lack time with children—an important social problem given that time strains link to parental well‐being. Extending perspectives on the demands and rewards of parenting beyond the individual level, we provide a contextual‐level window onto mothers' and fathers' time strains. Based on data from the European Quality of Life Survey 2016/17 ( n = 5,898), we analyze whether parents feel they spend enough time cari…
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States
We study how the education gap in unemployment has evolved by gender and age groups across 28 European countries and the United States from 2000 to 2014, using the European Union's Labour Force Surveys and the US Current Population Surveys. During and after the Great Recession, the absolute education gap in unemployment expanded in almost all countries, which was mainly driven by a marked increase in the unemployment risk among low educated men. …
Is single parenthood increasingly an experience of less-educated mothers? A European comparison over five decades
BACKGROUND: A central question in family research is whether parents’ social disadvantages, such as being a single parent or having low education, are becoming more concentrated over time. OBJECTIVE: We contribute to this literature by examining long-term trends in the gap in single parenthood between more educated and less-educated mothers since the 1970s to around 2015, placing special emphasis on children’s age. METHODS: To this end, we rely o…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Demography (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works)