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Marital Instability, Reproductive Behaviour and Women's Labour Force Participation Decisions
Author(s) -
Tanda Paola
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.1994.tb00227.x
Subject(s) - fertility , economics , empirical evidence , demographic economics , labour supply , labour economics , sociology , demography , population , philosophy , epistemology
The subject of this paper is the relationship between female labour force participation, fertility decisions and marital instability and pursues a two‐fold objective: to explain the nature of the interdependences between participation and procreation decisions; and to look for, through empirical evidence, an explanation for women's labour force participation and fertility dynamics over the last 20 years. The empirical evidence, based on a panel of 19 countries over the period 1965–1989, shows that variables representing marital instability have an important role in woman's labour supply and fertility dynamics during this period.