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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We …This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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This paper constructs and estimates a dynamic discrete choice structural model of female employment and fertility … effects of cash benefits seem modest. Overall, parental leave policies have little effect on fertility. …
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estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United … both labor and fertility decisions, I am unable to reproduce them relative to labor decisions in alternative samples drawn …
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question has important implications for policy measures that could be taken to improve women's lives. …
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particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be … services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …
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The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and … their physical capacity to give birth, children's health, the number of children desired, and women's ability to control …
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disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the … responses in earnings and labor market participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on … the intensive margin (working part-time), while non-college-educated women are relatively more likely to do so in the …
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Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to …
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its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively …At the national level, it has long been observed that a country's average education level is negatively associated with … children and the average education level (the quantity-quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …
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In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
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