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differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the …
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
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The paper innovates on the existing optimal taxation literature by taking fertility as endogenous, and allowing for … observe personal abilities, fertility behaviour conveys a great deal of information about those characteristics, that helps …
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The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many studies have pointed out that the emergence of labour markets created obstacles to but also new opportunities for women’s employment. A frequently mentioned explanation of the...
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In this paper we present important empirical evidence regarding recent trends in women’s participation and fertility in … considered labour supply and fertility as a joint decision and have explicitly taken into account the endogeneity of fertility in … on the joint decisions of labor market participation and fertility. The results of most analyses indicate that social …
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The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identi?es circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
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This article is aimed firstly at providing an empirical test of the causality link between fertility and education in … complementary as the results show that a rise in the level of education causes a decrease in the fertility of couples and this link … hence a decrease in fertility. …
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In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a … job displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these e … that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …
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Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are …
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