Women´s wages and childbearing decisions: Evidence from Italy

Concetta Rondinelli, Francesco Billari and Arnstein Aassve

Demographic Research, 2010, vol. 22, issue 19, 549-578

Abstract: During the early 1990s, Italy became one of the first countries to reach lowest-low fertility. This was also a period in which women´s education and labour force participation increased. We analyze the role of women´s (potential) wages on their fertility decisions by making use of two different surveys. This enables us to apply discrete-time duration models. For first births, we find evidence of non-proportional hazards and of some "recuperation" effects; for second and third births, instead, wage exhibits small intensity although there is a clear division between Northern and Southern Italian regions.

Keywords: lowest-low fertility; discrete time duration models; childbearing decisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.19

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