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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis
Münch, Claudia; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2009
We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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Doing science, forgoing childbearing? Evidence from a sample of female scientists in Austria
Buber, Isabella; Berghammer, Caroline; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2011
by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists' fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352573
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Wissenschaftlerinnen in Österreich: Zusatzerhebung im Rahmen des GGS. Dokumentation der Datenerhebung und deskriptive Ergebnisse
Buber, Isabella - 2010
the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other … modern societies. The current sample - although very selective - will allow new insights in the fertility behaviour and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352584
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Binary Choice with Binary Endogenous Regressors in Panel Data: Estimating the Effect of Fertility on Female Labour Participation
Carrasco, Raquel - 1999
to strictly exogenous. This model is applied to estimate a female participation equation with endogenous fertility and … exogenous fertility movements. The results indicate that assuming the exogeneity of fertility induces a downward bias in … absolute value in the estimated negative effect of fertility on participation, although the failure to account for unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608467
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Optimal Fertility Decisions in a Life Cycle Model
Rees, Ray; Scholz, Sebastian - 2010
of children delays the timing. The model can be used to predict upper bound fertility rates, when the expected divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427587
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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits
Raute, Anna - 2018
In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331423
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Income distribution and macroeconomics revisited: The role of fertility adjustment
Nakagawa, Masao; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - 2009
This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332195
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From duty to right: The role of public education in the transition to aging societies
Sugimoto, Yoshiaki; Nakagawa, Masao - 2007
This paper argues that currently advanced, aging economies experienced a qualitative change in the role of public education during the process of industrialization. In the early phases of the Industrial Revolution, public education was regarded as a duty that regulated child labor and thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332212
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Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335967