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Family and labor market choices: Requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289900
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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
fertility. These findings suggest that insurance motives underpin the dynamics of women's work participation. Examination of … markets, fertility timing and child outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269754
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Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects
Voicu, Alexandru; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 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. The time spent out of the labor market while on maternity leave alters women's participation experience and, thus, indirectly affects subsequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261954
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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 - 2004
decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262003
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Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany : The Role of Parental Leave
Merz, Monika - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262037
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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women: what is the role of education?
Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009
propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268956
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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 R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271268
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252286
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Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494277
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Does it pay for women to volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287603