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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

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The economics of marriage

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011

In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer when the children will no longer be economically...

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Employment and Fertility Decisions in Italy, France and the U.K.

Boca, Daniela Del; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2004

’s participation and reduce the cost of working. However the persistence of a negative relationship between participation and fertility … in these countries implies that it is important to take fertility into account . We analyze a model of labor supply and … fertility, using data from the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) for the period 1994-2000, merged with regional data …

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How to avoid a pension crisis: A question of intelligent system design.

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2009

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

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Participation and Fertility Behavior of Italian Women: The Role of Market Rigidities

Boca, Daniela del - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 1999

of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have …

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Labour market participation of mothers in Italy: facts, studies and public policies

Boca, Daniela Del; Pasqua, Silvia - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2002

employment rate among young women with children and the low fertility rate in Italy summarise the difficulties encountered by …

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THE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS ON MOTHERHOOD AND WORK

Boca, Daniela Del; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2007

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the …

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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TIME ALLOCATION OF ITALIAN COUPLES: ARE ITALIAN MEN IRRESPONSIVE?

BLOEMEN, HANS G.; PASQUA, SILVIA; STANCANELLI, ELENA G. F. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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ENDOGENOUS FERTILITY AND THE DESIGN OF FAMILY TAXATION

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2000

The paper innovates on the existing optimal taxation literature by taking fertility as endogenous, and allowing for … observe personal abilities, fertility behaviour conveys a great deal of information about those characteristics, that helps …

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Women's Employment, Children and Transition An Empirical Analysis on Poland

Bardasi, Elena; Monfardini, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005

The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many studies have pointed out that the emergence of labour markets created obstacles to but also new opportunities for women’s employment. A frequently mentioned explanation of the...

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