Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments

By Daniela Del Boca, Robert M. Sauer. Social Science Research Network, 2009

189 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility choices and estimate approximate decision rules using data on married women in Italy, Spain and France. The pattern of estimated state dependence effects across countries is consistent with aggregate patterns in part-time employment and child care availability, suggesting that labor market rigidities and lack of child care options are important sources of state dependence. Simulations of the model reveal that Italian and Spanish women would substantially increase their participation rates were they to face the French institutional environment.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4fa8216887bbd2d1a093c74143929587e940c74d

Citations in the corpus

• Dynamic Female Labor Supply (2009, unknown): “16 Hyslop (1999) and DelBoca and Sauer (2009) approximate the DP model by using reduced-form estimated equations.”
• The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility (2016, unknown): “Del Boca (2002), and Del Boca and Sauer (2009) constitute a special case.”