Employment dynamics of married women in Europe
By: by Pierre-Carl Michaud, Konstantinos Tatsiramos.
Contributors: Tatsiramos, Konstantinos.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1706; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1706
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Married women -- Employment -- European Union countries.
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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