Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

No 1706, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial condition solutions and non parametric distributions of unobserved heterogeneity. Results are used to relate cross-country differences in the employment rate to the estimated dynamic regimes. We find that cross-country differences in the employment rate and the persistence of employment transitions of married women are mostly due to composition effects related to education and unobserved characteristics rather than state-dependence effects or the dynamic effect of fertility.

Keywords: intertemporal labor supply; female employment; dynamic binary choice models; initial conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C25 D91 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2005-08
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