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This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … importance of distinguishing between extensive and intensive margin changes in both variables; consideration not only of women … of analysing changes across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over …
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participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects …. We structurally estimate the model using data from Mexico over a period during which women's participation increased by …-intensive occupations than in lower-paying manual and routine task-intensive occupations. We find that demand trends favored women …
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-driven downward pressure on women’s wages in low-paying occupations, and fully counteracted it in high-paying occupations. The paper …We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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-driven downward pressure on women's wages in low-paying occupations, and fully counteracted it in high-paying occupations. The paper …We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … extensive and intensive margin changes in both variables; consideration not only of women's participation but also of … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour …
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Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts...
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