This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … import competition to longitudinal individual data to examine individual fertility. Two separate measures of import exposure … remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …

individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We find substantial differences by gender. Men respond to import competition by …We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. We … such response for women, who do not increase labour supply following shocks affecting their partners. Gender differences in …

significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance …-employment appears to act as an employment buffer for men but not women. The impacts of import competition on partnering and family …

significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance …-employment appears to act as an employment buffer for men but not women. The impacts of import competition on partnering and family …

import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment … by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that increasing …

import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment … by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that increasing …

increasing import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap. These …This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment …-level employment by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that …

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with …

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower …

related gender gaps in Germany are even larger than previously thought. Moreover, we demonstrate that effects and their … crucial for understanding the persistent gender inequality in the labor market. We show that the prevalent approach to …-in-differences models. Applying it to administrative data from Germany, we demonstrate that considering heterogeneity by maternal age at …