CLASH OF CAREER AND FAMILY: FERTILITY DECISIONS AFTER JOB DISPLACEMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
• 署名单位: University of Essex; University of Mannheim; Johannes Kepler University Linz
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01074.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 659-683
• 关键词: earnings losses; EMPLOYMENT; POWER; pill

摘要

In this paper we investigate how career considerations may affect fertility decisions in the presence of a temporary employment shock. We compare the birth rates of women displaced by a plant closure with those of women unaffected by job loss after establishing the pre-displacement comparability of these groups. Our results reveal that job displacement reduces average fertility by 5%10%, and that these effects are largely explained by the response of women in more skilled occupations. We offer an explanation of our results based on career interruptions of women.