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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
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Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404191
In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...
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Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...
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and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043695
We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a … child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and … uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect a child’s activities. We apply maximum …
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become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …
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