全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP5077 The Benefits of Separating Early Retirees from the Unemployed: Simulation Results for Belgian Wage Earners

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP5077
	DP5077 The Benefits of Separating Early Retirees from the Unemployed: Simulation Results for Belgian Wage Earners
	Sergio Perelman; Alain Jousten; Raphael Desmet
发表日期	2005-05-23
出版年	2005
语种	英语
摘要	We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should capture, in addition to past economic and institutional conditions, the beliefs commonly held about the role of women in society, i.e. culture. Given the different time and place, only the beliefs embodied in the cultural proxies should be potentially relevant to women?s behaviour in the US in 1970. We show that these cultural proxies have positive and significant explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e.g., education and spousal characteristics). We examine alternative hypotheses for these positive correlations and show that neither unobserved human capital nor networks are likely to be responsible. We also show that the effect of these cultural proxies is amplified the greater is the tendency for ethnic groups to cluster in the same neighbourhoods.
主题	International Macroeconomics ; Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Female labour force participation Fertility Cultural transmission Immigrants Neighbourhoods Networks Family
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp5077
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533969
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sergio Perelman,Alain Jousten,Raphael Desmet. DP5077 The Benefits of Separating Early Retirees from the Unemployed: Simulation Results for Belgian Wage Earners. 2005.