@article{10902/35103,
year = {2024},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/35103},
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},
organization = {Guner acknowledges financial support from RecerCaixa, and from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, through the Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (CEX2019-000915-S). Kaya acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through grant “Consolidated Group-C” ECO2008-04756 and FEDER. Sánchez-Marcos acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Government under Grant No. PID2019-108087RB-I00 and from Fundación Ramon Areces. We thank our discussant, Pedro Mira, at the 2018 COSME Gender Economics Workshop in Madrid, and seminar and workshop participants at Bank of Spain, Cardiff Business School, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Stockholm School of Economics, U. de Alicante, U. Autonoma de Barcelona, U. of Bristol, U. of Edinburgh, U. Pablo de Olavide, U. de Zaragoza, 2017 SED Meetings in Edinburgh, 2018 EAE-ESEM Meetings in Cologne, 2019 Workshop in Public Policy Design: Family, Gender Economics at the Universitat de Girona, 2019 Meeting of the Italian Economic Association in Palermo, 2020 Income Dynamics and the Family Workshop in Barcelona, and 2021 GW4 Career Breaks & Gender Equality Workshop.},
publisher = {Departament of Economics, University of Pennsylvania ; Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University},
publisher = {International Economic Review, 2024, 65(3), 1551-1587},
title = {Labor market institutions and fertility},
author = {Nezih Guner and Ezgi Kaya and Sánchez Marcos, Virginia},
}