THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEMALE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND FERTILITY IN G7 COUNTRIES: EVIDENCE FROM PANEL COINTEGRATION AND GRANGER CAUSALITY

Vinod Mishra, Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth

No 13/06, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the G7 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 using panel unit root, panel cointegration, Granger causality and long-run structural estimation. The paper's main findings are that the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate are cointegrated for the panel of G7 countries; that long-run Granger causality runs from the total fertility rate to the female labour force participation rate and that a 1-per cent increase in the total fertility rate results in a 0.4 per cent decrease in the female labour force participation rate for the G7 countries.

Keywords: fertility; female labour force participation; panel unit roots; panel cointegration; G7 countries. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C52 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2006-07-01
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