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This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers … school completion and labor market participation than for schooling or wages. A reduction in teenage pregnancy by one …
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important role in the effect of rising female relative wages on fertility. Households save for a deposit in young age, rear …. The outcome from this model is that fertility: i. increases as female wages rise relative to male wages provided the price … fertility rebounds with rising house prices and female relative wages in several high income economies, but continues to decline …
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Recent literature exploring fetal shocks has focused on the effects of exogenous, but rather rare and violent events (e.g., military conflicts, natural disasters, terrorist attacks) and found that in utero experience has scaring, life lasting consequences. In this paper we consider the effect of...
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(SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers …This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …
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(SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers …This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580145
in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its …
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influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers …A number of studies have shown that women’s and men’s wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in …
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tochildren in comparison to men's wages not facing a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different … importance of legal job protection on reentry wages. Furthermore, we show that wages and the penalty for maternity differs by the …
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A lockdown implies a shift from the public to the private sphere, and from market to non-market production, thereby increasing the volume of unpaid work. Already before the pandemic, unpaid work was disproportionately borne by women. This paper studies the effect of working from home for pay...
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The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
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