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This paper examines the effects of low-skilled immigration on the work and fertility decisions of high-skilled women … decision making, we find that college-educated native females responded, on average, by increasing fertility and reducing short … fertility, as well as an increase in the proportion of women who both bore children and participated in the labor force. Taken …
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potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404191
Consistent with facts for a cross-section of EU countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children aged three to mandatory...
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In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …
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endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging …
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