1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher … remunerated at a lower rate in part-time than in full-time employment. Thus, the larger proportion of women than men in part …

The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … remarriage within three years of dissolution. The analysis is based on the demographic and work histories in the 1980 Women and …

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we … in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is … shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …

use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We …

fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … capture, in addition to past economic and institutional conditions, the beliefs commonly held about the role of women in …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …

, particularly those relating to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women …