The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent … 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 …

women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation. We …Using data from the NLSY79, we structurally estimate a dynamic model of the life cycle decisions of young women. The …

nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace …. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … ends of the age spectrum, with some marked regional differences. The female employment rate is especially low, in part due …

levels - do not significantly affect native employment in the short term and boost employment in the long term. …

NAFTA has resulted in the permanent elimination of more than 766,000 employment opportunities for non-degree U.S. workers … endeavor is to determine the impact of NAFTA on local economies, employment opportunities in specific industries and on wages … and employment opportunities. This paper is an attempt to better understand and objectively assess the impact of NAFTA on …

the first half of working life, coinciding with fertility cycles of women. After age 40, there has been substantial gender …We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection … model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …