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More on Marriage, Fertility and the Distribution of Income
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - 2002
captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. Married …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119233
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Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?
Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019
A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the … transitory. In this article, I use a new data set on manufacturing employment by occupation to do cument four stylized facts ab … of workers with little formal education in manufacturing relative to other industries has declined. Second, the disapp …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025990
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Education and labor market activity of women : an age-group specific empirical analysis
Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379383
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Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes : postponed childbearing increases women's labor market attachement but may reduce overall fertility
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2015
whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing fertility has on the labor market outcomes for mothers and on the total … force participation and wages but may have negative effects on overall fertility, especially in the absence of supportive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429465
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Season of birth and marital outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship status. For couples, additional analysis considers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387916
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120131
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What Determined the Fertility Rebound? The Empirical Evidence for 17 High-Income Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2015
total fertility rate and its potential determinants, across 17 high-income economies, where the ‘fertility rebound … fertility rate in selected 17 high-income economies. Second, it examines which factors hypothetically determine the fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023556
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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain
Adserà, Alícia - 2021
Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318895
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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2021
and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318921
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The effects of a universal child benefit
González, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422471