Labor market institutions and fertility

Guner, Nezih, Kaya, Ezgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1909-2649 and Sánchez Marcos, Virginia 2024. Labor market institutions and fertility. International Economic Review 65 (3) , pp. 1551-1587. 10.1111/iere.12708 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Some high-income countries have total fertility rates as low as one child. Using Spanish administrative data, we document that temporary contracts correlate with lower first birth rates. Also, women with children are less likely to work split-shift jobs with long breaks in the middle of the day. We build a life-cycle model where women decide on labor supply and fertility. We show that reforms eliminating duality or split-shift jobs raise women's labor participation, narrow the employment gap between mothers and nonmothers, and boost fertility for working women. These reforms, together with childcare subsidies, increase married women's fertility to 1.8 children.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0020-6598
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 January 2024
Date of Acceptance:	23 January 2024
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2024 09:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/165782

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