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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Bono, Emilia Del - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risk harzard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

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Does Housework Lower Wages and Why? Evidence for Britain

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Bryan, Mark L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Women working full-time in the UK earn on average about 18% per hour less than men (EOC, 2005). Traditional labour economics has focussed on gender differences in human capital to explain the gender wage gap. Although differences in male and female human capital are recognized to derive from...

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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family?

Di Tella, R.; MacCulloch, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

We analyze the relationship between the family and the Welfare State when intra-family transfers are governed by risk-sharing considerations (i.e. not by altruism). For the benchmarl case, the classic neutrality result is obtained: more generous unemployment benefits, provided by the State,...

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Kinship and Consumption: The Effect of Spouses' Outside Options on Household Productivity

Telalagic, Selma - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This paper provides a causal reason for failure in productive efficiency in the household and explains why some households may be less efficient than others. In the theoretical model, spouses make labour allocation decisions in each period to generate income, facing a threat of divorce in the...

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The Time-crunch Paradox

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Previous research has shown little difference in the average leisure time of men and women. This finding is a challenge to the second shift argument, which suggests that increases in female labor market hours have not been compensated by equal decreases in household labor. This paper...

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A Note on Leisure Inequality in the US: 1965-2003

Sanz, Almudena Sevilla; Nadal, Jose Ignacio GImenez - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Despite the well-documented increase in the relative wages and expenditures of highly-educated individuals in the U.S. in recent decades, leisure inequality mirrors inequality of wages, i.e. we observe that highly-educated individuals have now relatively less leisure time than lower-educated...

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Changing patterns of rural women's employment, production and reproduction in China.

E, Croll - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983

Working paper on trends in rural women's labour force participation and fertility patterns in China. Examines rural … women workers in agricultural employment and rural industry, household income, living conditions, marriage, family planning …

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Economic analysis of fertility; a study for Brazil.

EL, Kogut - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1974

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, emanating from the WEP, on the economic analysis of fertility in Brazil - examines the … factors as type and duration of marriage, income, educational level, residence in a rural area, age of married women at … marriage, etc. References and statistical tables. …

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Factory employment, marriage and fertility: the case of mauritian women.

C, Hein - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982

, shows that employment is associated with later marriage, lower fertility and family size (family planning), outlines …ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper examining the relationship between factory employment and fertility of working mothers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966335

Migration, urbanisation and fertility : the case of the Indian Punjab

Oberai, A. S; Singh, Manmohan; K, H. - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1980

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper examining the relationship between rural migration and urbanization and fertility in … India - based on two household surveys, examines socio-economic and demographic aspects influencing fertility and population …, age at marriage, family planning, migrant status, etc. And considers theoretical aspects. References and statistical …

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