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Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data

Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

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Are family allowances and fertility-related pensions siamese twins?

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2004

-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …

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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility? : government policies can have a modest effect on raising fertility, but broader social changes lowering fertilit...

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2014

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on - and sometimes falling below - rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …

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Does current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different educational groups?

Kalabichina, Irina E.; Tyndik, Alla - 2014

This article is devoted to investigation current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different … cognitive and emotional aspects of fertility behaviour (to give birth the next child). One of the important results of this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386116

Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data

Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461994

Paid childcare leave, fertility, and female labor supply in South Korea

Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2022

-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare …. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender …

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Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? : evidence from the UK’s two-child limit

Reader, Mary; Portes, Jonathan; Patrick, Ruth - 2022

fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the …-order fertility among lowincome families. However, compared to earlier research in the UK and elsewhere, largely based on benefit … low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to …

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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I …

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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

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