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Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the Pacific, China, and, to a lesser extent, North America is projected to … to deal with the projected shrinking of the labor forth in the North include moving the total fertility rate back to …
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structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. …
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We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...
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Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how common such contracts have become after deregulation, there...
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We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten …
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In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. …
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I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …
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declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …
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