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research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is known for having low female labor market participation rates compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that countries in this region do not follow a U-shape relation between female participation and GDP during the...
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drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women’s fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201041
growing literature. However, no study so far has looked into the dynamics of employment in terms of labour force entry and … endogenous switching model that corrects for selection bias due to initial employment and panel attrition, we investigate the … determinants of women’s entry into and exit from employment. We find that an increase in income of other members of the household …
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The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … entry and exit from employment. The findings suggest that a two-way negative association exists between fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785546
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434604
childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … employment in the manufacturing sector, increased female education, and the decline of joint family living. Using survival … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …
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In many countries, the Sixties marked a turning point in the history of women's emancipation. Using data with information on the birth order of large samples of individuals, we show that the first to be affected by this revolution were the first-born of the early 1960s: they grew up much more...
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404191
The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women’s employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … entry and exit from employment. The findings suggest that a two-way negative association exists between fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817780