Narrow search
Showing 26,951 - 26,960 of 26,996
Cover Image
Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state: the role of labor-market status, country of origin, and gender
Andersson, Gunnar; Scott, Kirk - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007
In this paper, we provide a study of childbearing dynamics by the labor-market status of co-residing one- and two-child parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on life histories of foreign-born mothers from ten different countries and the partners to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818260
Cover Image
Fertility and spatial mobility: evidence from Austria
Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005
There is a growing body of literature looking at the interplay between an individual’s residential and other careers in the life-course. Previous research has mostly studied the impact of partnership and employment changes on spatial mobility. This paper focuses on the effect of childbearing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818272
Cover Image
L'évolution de la fécondité dans le monde depuis 1965 et ses conséquences
Grinblat, Joseph Alfred - In: Mondes en développement n° 142 (2008) 2, pp. 13-22
In the last forty years the large majority of developing countries have seen their fertility drop, sometimes extremely … population, still have more than six children and face very dire economic development perspectives. Fertility in the developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005819465
Cover Image
Fertility , Human Capital and the "Wealth of Nations".
Tamura, R. - Department of Economics, Tippie College of Business - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005819539
Cover Image
The Impact of the Labour Market on the Timing of Marriage and Births in Spain.
Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967668
Cover Image
Fertility and Financial Incentives in France
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model … of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789152
Cover Image
On the Implications of Two-way Altruism in Human-Capital-Based OLG Model
Aoki, Takaaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
modified, fertility-endogenized definition of linearly separable two-way altruism examined by Abel (1987) and Altig and Davis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790136
Cover Image
From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth
Galor, Oded; Weil, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper examines the historical evolution of the relationship between population growth, technological change, and the standard of living. It considers several unified models that encompass the transition between three distinct regimes that have characterized the process of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791656
Cover Image
More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan
Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Jin-Tan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Many countries with "deficits" in their female population see banning sex-selective abortion as a way to curb the observed sex imbalance without discussing potentially negative unintended consequences of this ban on female survival rates as parents may be forced to substitute post-natal for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791821
Cover Image
Econometric Modelling of the Birth Rate
De Cooman, Eric; Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
adjustments of fertility behavior in response to changes in certain labor market variables: the ratio of women's to men's wages, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792295