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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility : evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Liepmann, Hannah - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 54 (2018), pp. 210-224
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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility? : government policies can have a modest effect on raising fertility, but broader social changes lowering fertilit...
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 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/10011414537
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Job security and fertility : evidence from German reunification
Klemm, Marcus - 2012
German reunification to study empirically the relationship between job security and fertility. The civil servant … security and fertility emerges for men, the paper demonstrates a clear link between labor market and demographic outcomes for … causal impact of job security on fertility. It shows that female civil servants are not primarily a selected group of very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670144
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The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph De; Harmgart, Heike; … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7 (2015) 1, pp. 183-203
We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107234
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Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China
Herd, Richard - 2010
China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444116
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Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China
Herd, Richard; Hu, Hu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542491
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Youth aspirations and the reality of jobs in Africa
Lorenceau, Adrien - 2021
The gap between youth aspirations and the reality of the labour markets in Africa is large. Career aspirations of young Africans have little in common with current and projected labour demand in the region, making it unlikely that they will go through a smooth school to work transition. Evidence...
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Aspirations des jeunes et réalité de l’emploi en Afrique
Lorenceau, Adrien - 2021
Il existe en Afrique un réel décalage entre les aspirations des jeunes et la réalité des marchés du travail. Les aspirations professionnelles des jeunes Africains ont ainsi peu en commun avec la demande de main-d’œuvre actuelle et prévue dans la région, ce qui rend peu probable une...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630478
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New Evidence on Taxes and the Timing of Birth
LaLumia, Sara; Sallee, James M.; Turner, Nicholas - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7 (2015) 2, pp. 258-93
This paper uses data from the universe of tax returns filed between 2001 and 2010 to test whether parents shift the timing of childbirth around the New Year to gain tax benefits. Filers have an incentive to shift births from early January into late December, through induction or cesarean...
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The Efficiency of a Group-Specific Mandated Benefit Revisited: The Effect of Infertility Mandates
Lahey, Joanna N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011
This paper examines the labor market effects of state health insurance mandates that increase the cost of employing a demographically identifiable group. State mandates requiring that health insurance plans cover infertility treatment raise the relative cost of insuring older women of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643260