Population dynamics are intricately related to long-lasting processes of social, economic, and cultural change. This article gives the example of the Netherlands and shows that this European country strives to optimize the wellbeing of its population in terms of health, income, and labor participation. The Dutch population is among the youngest in an ageing Europe and will continue to grow for ...

— This paper compares the early labor market experience of mature and young cohorts of women in Bogot a and Caracas. The cross-country, cross-cohort comparisons demonstrate the importance of both rising women’s human capital and family regimes to women’s labor market behavior. While divorce was a central stimulus of women’s work in both contexts, the more stable, patriarchal family regime in Bo...

In this paper, we examine the relationship between individual attributes, aggregate female labor force participation, and family policies, (e.g., child care and family leave) on fertility in developed countries using a hierarchical Bayesian model. Data from the European Values Survey, the World Values Survey, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are employed in this ana...

background: female labor supply has been changed dramatically in the recent yr. in this study, we examined the effects of development on the relationship between fertility and female labor supply. methods: we used data of population and housing census of iran and estimated three separate models. to do this we employed logistic regressions (blr). results: the estimation results of our study show...

【Keywords】Informal care, Caregiver, Long-term care insurance, Labor supply, Japan 【JEL Classification Codes】J22, I11 【Abstract】This paper examines the labor supply outcomes of family care provision for Japanese households in 2010, ten years after the introduction of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) program. We found that family care provision for parents adversely affected labor marke...

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that pub...

This chapter provides descriptive evidence on gender gaps of men and women in Spain, both at pre-market stages of life – university and post-graduate studies, as well as in their labor supply and labor market performance – employment rates, part-time employment and incidence in top occupations. Focusing on highly educated individuals, we explore the trade-offs between family and professional ca...

This paper analyzes the recent mass immigration from the USSR to Israel. We examine three interrelated features of the assimilation process; the rise in the productive capacity of immigrants as they gradually adapt to the Israeli labor market, the rising rewards that immigrants receive for their imported skills and the role of the family in facilitating the acquisition of local skills. We estim...

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies which concern childcare services are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may explain differences in h...

I. Introduction This article offers an empirical study of labor supply among married women belonging to the three major religions in Israel: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. In addition, this article offers clues on how religion affects women's value of time in marriage by examining religious differentials in the effect of husband's income, number of children, education, and age on women's lab...