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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings : evidence from administrative data
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014
This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433978
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Remote work, children's health and the racial gap in female wages
Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012874455
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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336961
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346051
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Assessing the impact of the maternity capital policy in Russia using a dynamic model of fertility and employment
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Jurko, Anna V. - 2013
With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis … model of fertility and labor force participation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy. We find that the … program increased long-run fertility by about 0.15 children per woman. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204502
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Natives and migrants in home production : the case of Germany
Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - 2016
, on fertility decisions and labour supply of native females in Germany. Specifcally, we consider individual data of native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544260
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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 - First version: May 2, 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/10011458585
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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/10011458811
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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/10011472167
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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 - First version: May 2, 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/10011483199