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The effects of migration and fertility on the age-sex structure of Lagos State, Nigeria
Ugomma, EJEKWUMADU Esther; Ani, MADU Ignatius; … - In: Economia. Seria Management 12 (2009) 2, pp. 28-38
This research was carried out to appraise the influence of fertility and migration on the age-sex population structure … migration trends in the study area. Using partial correlation and multiple regression analyses, we determined the influence of … migration and fertility on the age structure of the population. The combined effects of the partial correlation of fertility and …
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With strings attached: Grandparent-provided child care and female labor market outcomes
García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoë - 2013
Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent-provided child care requires residing close to parents or in-laws...
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Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia
Battaglia, Marianna; Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; … - 2017
majority culture is the main mechanism at play, as opposed to differences in opportunity cost of time, migration patterns …
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Explaining fertility variation in rural communities: The role of electricity in Ghana
Akpandjar, George; Puozaa, Conrad; Quartey, Peter - In: Economies 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-13
We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility rates across rural Ghana. Rural households with electricity, tend to have fewer children ever born to a woman than households without electricity. Using control function...
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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...
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Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...
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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States
Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
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Female Work and Fertility in the United States: Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrant Labor
Hock, Heinrich; Furtado, Delia - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009
This paper examines the effects of low-skilled immigration on the work and fertility decisions of high-skilled women born in the United States. The evidence we present indicates that low-skilled immigration to large metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000 lowered the cost of market-based...
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With strings attached: Grandparent-provided child care, fertility, and female labor market outcomes
García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to any other form of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor market decisions of women positively. We find that women in Germany, residing close to parents or in-laws are more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651388