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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … as well as fertility behavior. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed-term employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417103
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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461994
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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434621
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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 62 (2016) 4, pp. 595-623
We study the short- to medium-run effects on subsequent fertility of starting a career with a fixed-term contract. We … about their fertility. Our main results are the following. Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710954
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Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility : Evidence from German Micro Data
Auer, Wolfgang - 2014
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043699
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430740
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Female education and its impact on fertility : the relationship is more complex than one may think
Jungho Kim - 2016
The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434163
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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility? : government policies can have a modest effect on raising fertility, but broader social changes lowering fertilit...
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2014
Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on - and sometimes falling below - rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414537
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Struggling for new lives : family and fertility policies in the Soviet Union and modern Russia
Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2016
Russian governments to influence family formation models and fertility levels, in order to improve the demographic situation … spheres (maternity/paternity leaves, workplace flexibility measures), fertility promotion, childbearing and childcare support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482657
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The impact of abortion legalisation on birth outcomes in Uruguay
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, … - 2016 - This version: 10th June 2016
This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486110