The focus of this paper is to examine the impact of having a working mother on their daughter's labor force participation rate for the first time in Turkey by using a representative sample from the third largest city ´Yzmir. Our findings indicate that the gender role attitude is one of the most...

The focus of this paper is to examine the impact of having a working mother on their daughter's labor force participation rate for the first time in Turkey by using a representative sample from the third largest city Ýzmir. Our findings indicate that the gender role attitude is one of the most...

This paper develops a dynamic model of human capital investment and labor participation. The main focus is on the fact that women's labor force participation rate is U-shaped over the course of development. We also analyze the behavior of the relative education levels of men and women, the...

Over the last two decades, the number of individuals entitled to work incapacity (WI) benefits increased strongly in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. The caseload has consequently increased but this has happened at a very different pace and to a very different degree. In order to...

This paper addresses revolutionary changes in the education, fertility and market work of U.S. families formed in the 1870s-1920s: Fertility fell from 5.3 to 2.6; the graduation rate of their children increased from 7 to 50 percent; and the fraction of adulthood wives devoted to market-oriented...