Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,548
Cover Image
The child penalty : evidence from Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694349
Cover Image
Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652849
Cover Image
Robots, labor markets, and family behavior
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2019
cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140291
Cover Image
Long-term effects of recession on parenthood gender inequality
Kim, Jinyoung; Kwak, Eunhye - 2023
This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249934
Cover Image
The emergence of procyclical fertility : the role of gender differences in employment risk
Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu - 2022
Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484646
Cover Image
The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2020
-born mothers-in-law can explain the fertility and labor supply decisions of native US women. Our results reveal that women's labor … intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes affect the fertility behavior of native women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256772
Cover Image
Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931469
Cover Image
The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes : evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … the fertility behavior of native women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787325
Cover Image
China's family planning policies and their labor market consequences
Wang, Fei; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and one-child policy in 1980 and allows all couples to have two children as of 1st January, 2016. This paper systematically examines the labor market consequences of China's family planning policies. First, we briefly review the major historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452663
Cover Image
The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran
Azimi, Ebrahim - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-11
exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429955