 Did the association between fertility and female employment within OECD countries really change its sign?No WP-2001-034, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany Abstract: Recent literature finds that in OECD countries the cross-country correlation between the total fertility rate and the female labor force participation rate, which until the beginning of the 1980s had a negative value, has since acquired a positive value. This result is (explicitly or implicitly) often interpreted as evidence for a changing sign in the time-series association between fertility and female employment within OECD countries. This paper shows that the time-series association between fertility and female employment does not demonstrate a change in sign. Instead, the reversal in the sign of the cross-country correlation is most likely due to a combination of two elements: First, the presence of unmeasured country-specific factors and, second, country-heterogeneity in the magnitude of the negative time-series association between fertility and female employment. However, the paper does find evidence for a reduction in the negative time-series association between fertility and female employment after about 1985. Keywords: female employment; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dem:wpaper:wp-2001-034 DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2001-034 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany |
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