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Should common law marriage be abolished?
Grossbard, Shoshana - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
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Evaluating how child allowances and daycare subsidies affect fertility
Goldstein, Joshua R.; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian; … - 2017
special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use … two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset … expenditure to increase fertility to the replacement level might be viewed as prohibitively high. …
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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings: Evidence from administrative data
Hotchkiss, Julie. L; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014
This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …
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Immigration, family responsibilities and the labor supply of skilled native women
Farré, Lídia; González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
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Family and labor market choices: Requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
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Family and labor market choices: Requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289900
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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
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The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality
Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2020
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …
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Fertility and Family Labor Supply
Jakobsen, Katrine M.; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Low, Hamish - 2022
We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
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