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Are Fertility Responses to Local Unemployment Shocks Homogenous Across Social Strata? Evidence from England, 1994 to 2010
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Are fertility responses to local unemployment homogenous across sub-demographic groups? This paper investigates how … changes in local unemployment rates affect household fertility decisions in England while taking sub-demographic differences … on the current period fertility. Using the Labor Force Survey and Birth Statistics data from the Office for National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110065
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative personality traits are often attributed to people from specific areas. People from Henan, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168439
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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”
Branea, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257700
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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the "Left Behind" Generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536010
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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003475
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This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'
O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European Union. The paper documents some of the key characteristics of young people's labour market experiences during the current recession and then seeks to provide some explanations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551060
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New Mothers’ Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics
Bratti, Massimiliano; Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after the birth of the first child. We focus on the effects of pre-marital job characteristics and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763890
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Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF). I develop and estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233902
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The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959702