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World War II, the baby boom and employment: county level evidence
Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021
This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519248
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World War II, the baby boom and employment : county level evidence
Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021
This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518072
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World War II, the baby boom and employment : county level evidence
Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012617659
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Child costs and the causal effect of fertility on female labor supply : an investigation for Indonesia 1993 - 2008
Priebe, Jan - 2010
Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the …. Therefore, reductions in fertility rates seem to have led to two opposing effects that contributed to aggregate levels of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339415
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The labor market and fertility impacts of decreasing the compulsory schooling age
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Prinz, Daniel; Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes - 2021
While an extensive literature investigates the effects of longer schooling, we know very little about what happens when compulsory schooling is shortened. This paper looks at the effects of a reform in Hungary that decreased the school leaving age from 18 to 16. We show that the reform increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198971
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794700
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936792
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The economic consequences of being widowed by war : a life-cycle perspective
Braun, Sebastian; Stuhler, Jan - 2024
Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased women's employment immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529728
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The labour market in CGE models
Boeters, Stefan; Savard, Luc - 2011
This chapter reviews options of labour market modelling in a CGE framework. On the labour supply side, two principal modelling options are distinguished and discussed: aggregated, representative households and microsimulation based on individual household data. On the labour demand side, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424086
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Dokumentation FiFoSiM : integriertes Steuer-Transfer-Mikrosimulations- und CGE-Modell
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2005
Diese Dokumentation beschreibt das integrierte Steuer-Transfer-Mikrosimulations- und CGE-Modell FiFoSiM des Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstituts an der Universität zu Köln (FiFo). FiFoSiM unterscheidet sich von den bisherigen Steuer- und Transfersimulationsmodellen auf zweierlei Weise...
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