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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
Furtado, Delia - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2015
potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions—namely, married women and women … analysis of the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206249
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
Farré, Lidia; Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317956
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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings: evidence from administrative data
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, Melinda; Walker, MaryBeth - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115670
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Reconsidering the impact of family size on labour supply: The twin-problems of the twin-birth instrument
Braakmann, Nils; Wildman, John - 2014
Twin births are often used to instrument for fertility when investigating the impact of family size on labor market … outcomes. In this paper we consider two econometric problems both related to the link between fertility treatments and multiple … births. The first is the potential for omitted variable bias caused by the fact that fertility treatments are typically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095653
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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010571328
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Fecundidad y Oferta Laboral femenina en el Uruguay: Un Enfoque Económico
Pagano, Juan Pablo; Rijo, Natalia; Rossi, Maximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2009
In the present work we study the joint determinants of fertility and female labor supply decisions in Uruguayan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833408
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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions – namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961045
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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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/10010896186
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
Farré, Lídia; Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969330