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,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …
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We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...
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,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763524
We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876567
This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap...
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We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten … birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. …
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is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … retirement in the late 1950s and in the 1960s instead freed positions and created employment opportunities. Finally, we show that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom …
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The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high- income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …
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