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fertility on mothers' labour supply and seems to help mothers to better conciliate family and professional life but our …
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demographers to hypothesise a direct relationship between indicators of economic development and fertility rates. Using recent … National Family Health Survey data and the 1991 Census to explore factors contributing to fertility rates in India, we found … that economic variables explain 70 per cent of the interstate variations in India's fertility rates. However, several non …
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effects of fertility on labor supply, few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity inherent in these … choices. In our research we use exogenous variations in fertility due to twin births to measure the impact of an unplanned …
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Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
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of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have …
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employment rate among young women with children and the low fertility rate in Italy summarise the difficulties encountered by …
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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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