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fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child …
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During the last decades we have experienced serious demographic changes observed in the decrease in both fertility and … mortality and that led to the ageing of population. Despite the decrease in mortality is a good thing, the ageing make the … stating that the median age of population will change from 35 years to 53 years, making an unsustainable amount of people …
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was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period … benefits to estimate the impact of the reform. I incorporated the mother’s decision to substitute her care time with the public … participation during the first year of leave and an increase in employment probability after the benefits expired. The empirical …
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married mothers' employment and fertility rates, paying special attention to heterogeneous effects. A heterogeneous agent … model, populated by married households who make decisions related to labour supply and fertility, and the Spanish economy … the fertility rate to increase, but it implies a significant adjustment in tax rates to maintain the same fiscal balance …
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exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …
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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 …
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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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Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...
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This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers. We construct a pseudo panel from the Brazilian Household Surveys (the 1992-2004 PNADs) and from the Health Ministry data (DATASUS 1981-1992) by state of birth and cohort. We...
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effects of cash benefits seem modest. Overall, parental leave policies have little effect on fertility. …This paper constructs and estimates a dynamic discrete choice structural model of female employment and fertility … decisions that incorporates job protection and cash benefits of parental leave legislation. The structural model is used for ex …
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