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Fertility, female labor supply and public policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female …

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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the …

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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market

Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2006

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. -- child … care ; labor supply ; discrete choice ; panel study ; Germany …

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Women in political bodies as policymakers

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023

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Women's career choices, social norms and child care policies

Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2017

Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples,...

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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries

García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing evidence suggesting that a more equal division of labor within the home leads to more children,...

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Paid childcare leave, fertility, and female labor supply in South Korea

Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2022

contraception to the childcare subsidy are 0.65 and -0.10, respectively. However, we do not find effects on employment arrangements …

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Couples' labour supply responses to job loss : boom and recession compared

Bryan, Mark L.; Longhi, Simonetta - 2013

We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...

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Obstacles to labour market participation among Arab women in Israel

Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha - 2020

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...

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Employment dynamics of married women in Europe

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2005

behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using … heterogeneity. Results are used to relate cross-country differences in the employment rate to the estimated dynamic regimes. We find … that cross-country differences in the employment rate and the persistence of employment transitions of married women are …

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