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Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …
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Dakar as it does in Lomé. When women in Dakar take part in an economic activity outside the domestic sphere this clashes …(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in … increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but their participation does not have the same sociological meaning in …
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does in Lomé. When women in Dakar take part in an economic activity outside the domestic sphere this clashes with the …Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an … economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women …
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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...
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-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …
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The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … context. Specifically, a separate analysis is made of the association between the employment statuses of women in their first …
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This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
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Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives … decisions women and their husbands make vis-à-vis procreation, along with fertility correlates such as age and education level …. Finally, we examine the scope of women’s agency over a variety of decisions, as well as the links between women’s employment …
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-selective abortions and have the lowest fertility. Women with less education have substantially higher fertility and do not appear to use … sex selection. Predicted lifetime fertility for high-education women declined more than 10% between 1985-1994, when sex …This paper addresses two main questions: what is the relationship between fertility and sex selection and how does …
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