Psychological traits, attitudes and soft skills represent factors whose effect on an individual's wages has begun to be …

Higher wages increase labor costs but improve the productivity of the labor force through several channels. If firms … take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages may fail to adjust demand and supply but may … higher wages. All these phenomena are well established empirically. Efficiency wage theory provides an integrated explanation …

This study analyses how fertility is affected by social security system when efficiency wages are considered in an … the childrearing costs level, and the higher effort, the higher ability to raise children, improving fertility …

of children delays the timing. The model can be used to predict upper bound fertility rates, when the expected divorce …

This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling behavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade …-run prospects for future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all developed …