Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement

Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

No 2011-01, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are signiffcantly below those of a control group, even after six years.

Keywords: fertility; unemployment; plant closings; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J24 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2011-04
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