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Title: Fertility, Women's Wage Rates, and Labor Supply
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Fleisher, Belton M. Rhodes, George F. |
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Fertility, Women's Wage Rates, and Labor Supply American Economic Review 69,1 (March 1979): 14-24. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1802493 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Behavior; Children; Employment; Family Income; Fertility; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Wage Rates; Wages, Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Our empirical results encourage us to believe that a disaggregate multivariate approach is useful for the study of fertility and labor supply behavior. There is fairly persuasive evidence that the number of children demanded responds negatively to their cost and positively to family income, ceteris paribus. Our results suggest that declining family size will reduce the future discrepancy in male-female wage differentials. Increased labor force attachment may prove to be a more powerful force toward male-female wage equality than "equal opportunity" labor market legislation. |
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Fleisher, Belton M. and George F. Rhodes. "Fertility, Women's Wage Rates, and Labor Supply." American Economic Review 69,1 (March 1979): 14-24.
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