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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations …
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issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …
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Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor … by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational …
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Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … immigration to the U.S. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that immigrants from these on average high fertility …
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dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich …, identifying marital selection and fertility choices as fundamental socialization mechanisms. The estimated cultural intolerance of …, as well as fertility and homogamy rates, slow-down the cultural integration of some immigrant ethnic minorities …
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This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of … consequences of teenage childbearing among government and public health officials, including those in Turkey. For women ages 20 …
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This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening … significant factor in the impact of economic crises on birth outcomes in Turkey. Our study also demonstrates that mothers residing … fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …
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This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year...
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) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …
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differential effects of UI in booms and recessions, this paper exploits the fact that, in Germany, potential UI benefit duration is …One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face …
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