 Fecundidade e participação no mercado de trabalho brasileiro [Fertility and participation in the Brazilian labor market]Marina Da Cunha () and Marcos Vasconcelos () Nova Economia, 2016, vol. 26, issue 1, 179-206 Abstract: This paper analyzes the determinants of fertility and participation of females in Brazil's labor market. For such a purpose, we used the information from the national home sampling survey of IBGE, from 1995 to 2009, and the bivariate probit model. As expected, decreases in fertility were observed, as well as increased participation in the analyzed period. A negative effect of wages on the probability of fertility was also observed and a positive effect on the participation probability in the labor market. In addition, other control variables that affect the decisions of women were found including personal characteristics, condition in the family and place of residence. Furthermore, it was found that the effect of wages on fertility is higher in the lower tail of the distribution of household income, and that the inverse occurs in participation of women in the labor market. Keywords: female participation; fertility; wages; income (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nov:artigo:v:26:y:2016:i:1:p:179-206 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Nova Economia is currently edited by Gustavo de Britto Rocha More articles in Nova Economia from Economics Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627 - Predio da FACE Belo Horizonte, 31270-901 Brazil. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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