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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …

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Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility

Eibich, Peter - 2020

children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840452

Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009865

Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education.We find … native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011169

Efficient labor supply for Latin families : is the intra-household bargaining power relevant?

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2018

This paper analyzes the efficient labor supply of male and female workers in Latin American countries employing the collective model framework (Chiappori et al.,2002). Using data from Time Use Surveys for Mexico (2009) and Colombia (2012), we find evidence of Pareto-efficient labor supply...

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Women's fertility and employment decisions under two political systems : comparing East and West Germany before reunification

Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and … drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …

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Single motherhood in East and West Germany : what can explain the differences?

Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2015

The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine two transmission channels leading to single motherhood, namely out-of-partnership births and separations of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany...

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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply : Analysis of Ivf Reform in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2019

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...

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Children and female employment in Mongolia

Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022

Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...

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The Effect of Long-Term-Care Subsidies on Female Labor Supply and Fertility

Korn, Evelyn; Wrede, Matthias - 2021

Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …’s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …

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