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Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and …
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affecting the quantity and quality of employment on the demand side of the economy; and c) factors affecting processes of … 'unemployment' and 'poverty' traps, geographical mobility of residence and employment pay discrimination, the 'discouraged worker …
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This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...
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This paper evaluates the relative impact of range of health, economic and structural factors on the employment …
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-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment … the British Household Panel Survey, including the retrospective histories concerning work, union, and child bearing, to …. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast …
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a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work …
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that the impact of the mother's wage on her completed fertility varies with the market price of child care, and that this …
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The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using panel data probit regression models, the paper also...
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Advocates of apprenticeship programmes often argue as if it is simply a matter of historical accident that such investment by US firms has been hindered. This paper explores the structure of incentives underpinning the German system of apprenticeship training. First, we describe three...
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