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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … level of social norms (including fertility preferences) that is transmitted from the migrant to the household. Second …

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Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time : The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

Naufal, George - 2009

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The importance of being mature: the effect of demographic maturation on global per-capita GDP

Gómez, Rafael; Hernández de Cos, Pablo - 2006

Given that savings behaviour and worker productivity have strong life-cycle components and given that demographic profiles vary across countries, population age structure should be linked to differences in levels of economic development. In this paper we measure the economic importance of age...

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Child Labour : Trends, Challenges and Policy Responses - Joining Forces Against Child Labour

Programme, UCW - 2011

The report makes use of advances in research achieved through UCW and other efforts to take stock of the global child labour situation, assess key remaining obstacles to the elimination of child labour and identify strategies for addressing them

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185230

Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Andrienko, Yuri - 2015

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...

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Life Expectancy and Economic Development : Evidence from Microdata

Turan, Belgi - 2021

This study examines the effect of life expectancy on fertility, education and labor force participation. Using birth … equilibrium model linking life expectancy to fertility, human capital, and labor supply. My results suggest that increases in life … expectancy reduce fertility, increase education, and increase labor force participation. Overall, my empirical results suggest …

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Child Labour and the Global Financial Crisis : An Issues Paper

Koseleci, Nihan - 2011

Recent years have seen a sustained progress in the fight against child labour. The current global economic and financial crisis can potentially reverse the positive trends observed in several countries and further aggravate the problem in regions such as Sub Saharan Africa where the phenomenon...

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Childcare and maternal labor supply : a cross-country analysis of quasi-experimental estimates from 7 countries

Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes; Lovász, Anna - 2017

Evidence from single country studies suggests that the effect of subsidized childcare availability on maternal labor supply varies greatly by institutional context. We provide estimates of the childcare effect around age 3 of children for 7 EU countries, based on harmonized data and the same...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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Motherhood Employment Penalty and Gender Wage Gap Across Countries : 1990–2010

Chu, Yu-wei Luke - 2020

In this paper, we use twin birth as an instrument to estimate the effects of fertility on female labor force …

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