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Fertility and family labor supply
Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Low, Hamish - 2022
We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201692
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Fertility and family labor supply
Jakobsen, Katrine M.; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Low, Hamish - 2022
We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205307
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Impact of gender inequality on the Republic of Korea's long-term economic growth : an application of the theoretical model of gender inequality and economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
This paper presents a theoretical model that can analyze the impact of gender inequality on long-term economic growth. The model is calibrated to fit to Korean data. We find that gender equality policies that lower discrimination in the labor market or that increase the time spent by a father on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416953
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A model of gender inequality and economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
gender-equality economy. This is because fertility and population decrease as women participate more in the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431771
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Retirement Prospects of Divorced Women in the Baby Boom and Generation X Cohorts
Butrica, Barbara A. - 2015
Blacks, Hispanics, and divorced women have historically experienced double-digit poverty rates in retirement, and divorce and other demographic trends will increase their representation in future retiree populations. For these reasons, we might expect an increase in the proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037253
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The Impact of Fertility Restrictions on Parental Labor Supply in Middle and Late Adulthood
Li, Molin - 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the long-term consequences of exposure to policy-driven fertility restrictions … “Later, Longer, Fewer (LLF)” campaign, a policy with strict enforcement of a series of fertility restrictions to mandatorily … causal effect of exposure to fertility restriction using a difference-in-difference specification and exploiting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290927
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The emergence of procyclical fertility : the role of gender differences in employment risk
Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu - 2022
Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484646
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Work disability after motherhood and how paternity leave can help
Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020
We study how childbirth increases the likelihood of young, working mothers to claim disability insurance and how paternity leave could ease this effect. Our event study analysis uses Belgian data to show that the incidence rate of disability across gender only diverges after first-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295373
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies’ Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
De Cao, Elisabetta - 2020
provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840771
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Why Did Rich Families Increase Their Fertility? Inequality and Marketization of Child Care
Bar, Michael - 2019
A negative relationship between income and fertility has persisted for so long that its existence is often taken for … fertility between rich and poor. We show that the relationship between income and fertility has flattened between 1980 and 2010 … in the US, a time of increasing inequality, as high income families increased their fertility. These facts challenge the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897954