Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data
Wolfgang Auer,Natalia Danzer +1 more
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In this paper, the short-to medium-run effects on subsequent fertility of starting a career with a fixed-term contract were studied, focusing on career start since they expect that temporary contracts and their inherent economic uncertainty imply a path dependence that might have spill-over effects on other domains of life.Abstract:
We study the short-to medium-run effects on subsequent fertility of starting a career with a fixed-term contract. We focus on career start since we expect that temporary contracts and their inherent economic uncertainty imply a path dependence that might have spill-over effects on other domains of life. Our empirical analysis is based on rich data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which provides comprehensive information about individuals' labour market history as well as about their fertility. Our main results are the following. Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed-term employment at labour market entry and (ii) reduce the number of children in the first 10 years after graduation. These associations are strongest in the subsample of native women with at least vocational training. (iii) In contrast, we find no significant correlations for men. We argue that these findings are robust to potential endogeneity threats.read more
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: The Enlarged Edition as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of the evolution of the family and the state Bibliography Index. But it does not discuss the relationship between fertility and the division of labor in families.
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An Economic Analysis of Fertility
TL;DR: This paper analyzed family size decisions within an economic framework and found that fertility was determined primarily by two primitive variables, age at marriage and the frequency of co-operation during marriage, and the development and spread of knowledge about contraceptives during the last century greatly widened the scope of family size decision-making.
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On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Gary S. Becker,H. Gregg Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: De Tray and Willis as discussed by the authors argued that the negative relation between quantity and quality often observed is a consequence of a low substitution elasticity in a family's utility function between parents' consumption or level of living and that of their children.
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
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