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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …

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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

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Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey

Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …

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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother''s employment. The aim of this article is to study empirically the women''s transitions from employment to non-employment after they have their first birth in Belgium, West-Germany, Italy, Spain...

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Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are interested in transitions from employment to non-employment and downward occupational mobility. Results show that Spanish women experience significant transitions from employment to...

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Social comparisons, health and well-being

Clark, Andrew E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...

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