Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Skill premium effects on fertility and female labor force supply
Abstract. In the last twenty years the United States has seen a positive relationship between female labor supply and total fertility rates, which differs from the pattern observed over the preceding years. We construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model capable of generating this changing relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We argue that skilled biased technological change in recent decades has increased the skill premium and has therefore decreased the relative cost of (unskilled) child care services. The positive effect of the increase in female mean wages on fertility rates, and the inducement for labor force participation provided by the reduction in the relative cost of child care services, generated the positive relationship between fertility rates and female labor force participation in the last two decades.
Skill premium effects on fertility and female labor force supply
Abstract. In the last twenty years the United States has seen a positive relationship between female labor supply and total fertility rates, which differs from the pattern observed over the preceding years. We construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model capable of generating this changing relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We argue that skilled biased technological change in recent decades has increased the skill premium and has therefore decreased the relative cost of (unskilled) child care services. The positive effect of the increase in female mean wages on fertility rates, and the inducement for labor force participation provided by the reduction in the relative cost of child care services, generated the positive relationship between fertility rates and female labor force participation in the last two decades.
Skill premium effects on fertility and female labor force supply
Martínez, Dolores Ferrero (Autor:in) / Iza, Amaia (Autor:in)
2004
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
Effects of Vietnam’s two-child policy on fertility, son preference, and female labor supply
| Online Contents | 2020
Premium plan of rewarding labor
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1902
Time series analysis of fertility and female labor market behavior
| Online Contents | 2003
The premium plan of paying for labor
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1911