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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities : Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

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dc.creator Del Bono, Emilia
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:11:16Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:11:16Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20587
dc.identifier ppn:472766031
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20587
dc.description This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not affect union formation. Local male unemployment, on the contrary, is a positive determinant of single motherhood and a negative factor in cohabitation decisions. The latter result is consistent with the Wilson hypothesis as it shows the existence of a direct effect of male joblessness on co-residential relationships.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1320
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J12
dc.subject J13
dc.subject C41
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject fertility
dc.subject marriage
dc.subject competing risks hazard models
dc.subject Fruchtbarkeit
dc.subject Ehe
dc.subject Alleinerziehende
dc.subject Arbeitslosigkeit
dc.subject Familienökonomik
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Grossbritannien
dc.title Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities : Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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