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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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The impact of female education on teenage fertility : evidence from Turkey
Güneş, Pınar Mine - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 1, pp. 259-288
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430730
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Education and labor market activity of women : an age-group specific empirical analysis
Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009
We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379383
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Determinants of labour market gender inequalities in Cameroon, Senegal and Mali : the role of human capital and fertility burden
Kuépié, Mathias - In: Canadian journal of development studies 37 (2016) 1, pp. 66-82
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Diverging stories of “missing women” in South Asia : is son preference weakening in Bangladesh?
Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Mahmud, Simeen - In: Feminist economics 20 (2014) 4, pp. 138-163
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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434634
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Manufacturing growth and the lives of Bangladeshi women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408832
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Motives for combining motherhood with employment : evidence for medium and highly educated Polish women around the EU accession
Matysiak, Anna; Mynarska, Monika - In: Central European economic journal 8 (2021) 55, pp. 63-78
This article provides insights into employment decisions of mothers and mothers-to-be in a post-socialist Poland around the entry to the EU. Previous studies for this country continuously pointed to a strong determination among mothers to be employed during the economic transformation, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799157
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Paid childcare leave, fertility, and female labor supply in South Korea
Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2022
-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare …. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender …
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Determinants of fertility in the long run
Lee, Jong-Wha - In: The Singapore economic review : journal of the Economic … 65 (2020) 4, pp. 781-804
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