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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130039
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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785806
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If not now, when? The timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780701
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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885556
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Does it pay for women to volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 2012
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287603
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252286
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The impact of children on female earnings in Britain
Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2004
participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range … differential reduces to 16%-18% instrumenting participation and fertility, however, using the estimates obtained from the double …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260687
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Analyzing female activity and fertility in Spain through discrete choice models
Aurora Alonso–Antón; Ana Fernández–Sainz; … - In: Lecturas de Economía (2015) 82, pp. 127-157
This paper analyses labor force participation and fertility of women in Spain. Using data from the Survey of Active … variables are participation and fertility. Both models show that participation and fertility are conditioned by socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011220502
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Manufacturing employment and women's agency : evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2022
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment (RMG) factories in new industrial zones greatly increased....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358737
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Adieu Rabenmutter: The effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare
Borck, Rainald - 2011
This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275001