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Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Kim, Jungho; Aassve, Arnstein - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

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Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the … IV estimates indicate that fertility effects are: (a) negative, large and long lasting; (b) much stronger at the …

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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Direct and Indirect Effects

Voicu, Alexandru; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Children affect the after-birth labor force participation of women in two ways. Directly, the time spent in child-care reduces the labor market effort. Time spent out of the labor market while on maternity leave alters women’s participation experience and indirectly affects subsequent...

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The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women

Troske, Kenneth; Voicu, Alexandru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

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Ora et non Labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

Pastore, Francesco; Tenaglia, Simona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women aged between 18 and 60 years in 47 European countries drawn from the European Values Study (EVS). We investigate the determinants of the probability of being employed rather...

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Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be …

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Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave

Merz, Monika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women’s weekly market hours worked in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census from 1957 until 2002. Aggregate weekly hours worked per workingage woman are decomposed into hours...

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