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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility?
Brainerd, Elizabeth - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on—and sometimes falling below—rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764625
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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility?
Brainerd, Elizabeth - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on—and sometimes falling below—rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404846
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The inter-generational fertility effect of an abortion ban : understanding the role of inherited wealth and preferences
Gutierrezy, Federico H. - 2018
This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130256
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Out-of-partnership births in East and West Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Chadi, Cornelia - 2019
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161466
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Family structure and children’s educational attainment in transition economies
Mangiavacchi, Lucia - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Compared to developing economies, European transition economies had high levels of human capital when their transitions began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573693
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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2020
The costs to a firm of employee absence depend on how easy it is to find a replacement. We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences that arise from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over two million spells of leave in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303495
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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2022
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256655
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The impact of alternative childcare policies on mothers' employment in selected EU countries
Narazani, Edlira; Agúndez García, Ana; Christl, Michael; … - 2023
This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541979
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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130039
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Is the future of work childless? : self-employment and fertility
Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in … many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149207