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The Impact of Female Employment on the Likelihood and Timing of Second and Higher Order Pregnancies

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data …-force participation of women does have an important effect on the spacing of pregnancies, although the effect is less pronounced in the … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … that women benefit from labor force participation, and that this gain exceed financial benefits from earnings. However, the … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant …

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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply

Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility … is known to be higher, female education levels are much lower and there are fewer facilities for childcare. …

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Does the Mortality Decline Promote Economic Growth?

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education …

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Fair pay and a Wagebill Argument for Wage Rigidity and Excessive Employment Variability

Thomas, Jonathan P. - EconWPA - 2000

This paper considers a two-period optimal contracting model in which firms make new hires in the second period subject to the constraint that they cannot pay discriminate either against or in favour of the new hires. Under an assumption on the information available to workers, it is shown that...

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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - EconWPA - 2005

Observers of Silicon Valley’s computer cluster report that employees move rapidly between competing firms, but evidence supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent and resources toward firms with superior...

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Firm Heterogeneity and Worker Turnover

Lane, Julia I.; Isaac, Alan G.; Stevens, David W. - EconWPA - 1996

Previous emperical analyses of job mobility focus on worker rather than firm characteristics. This paper exploits a unique data set on enterprise employment. We describe sectoral difference in turnover rates and in the persistence of turnover. We also present evidence of persistent turnover...

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The Dynamic Beveridge Curve

Fujita, Shigeru; Ramey, Garey - EconWPA - 2005

In aggregate U.S. data, exogenous shocks to labor productivity induce highly persistent and hump-shaped responses to both the vacancy- unemployment ratio and employment. We show that the standard version of the Mortensen-Pissarides matching model fails to replicate this dynamic pattern due to...

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...

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Job Flows, Worker Flows and Churning

Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia; Stevens, David - EconWPA - 1996

We utilize a large establishment-level panel dataset to explore the links between gross job flows and gross worker flows. Our findings have relevance for models of job creation and job destruction, and labour reallocation. We find churning flows (the difference between worker and job flows at...

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