fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the … country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but a considerable … level of industry suggests that the growth of part-time employment in the 1990s relates strongly to the growth in female …

simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …

women with young children. Accompanying this change has been a rise in cultural acceptance of maternal employment. We argue … engaged in Bayesian learning about the effects of maternal employment on children. Each generation updates their parents …