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Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...
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retirement age aiming at offsetting the effects on the supply of labor following fertility changes. The authors find that the … retirement age should increase more than proportionally to the direct fall in labor supply caused by a fall in fertility. The …
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This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …
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fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and … fertility. This is because female wages and therefore the opportunity cost of children are higher in those countries. The paper … demonstrates empirically that countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility …
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transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with …
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context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the …
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since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor …
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This paper examines how different types of workers in seventeen middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Average employment growth slowed dramatically, particularly for wage and industrial sector workers, with corresponding increases in...
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of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to lower energy intensity for all countries. The study also finds … evidence of long-run bidirectional causality between lower energy intensity and higher economic growth for middle …
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In many developing countries, environmental quality remains low and policies to improve it have been inconsistently effective. This paper conducts a case study of environmental policy in India, focusing on unprecedented Supreme Court rulings that targeted industrial pollution in the Ganga River....
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