Influence of women’s workforce participation and pensions on total fertility rate: a theoretical and econometric study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40822-017-0074-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40822-017-0074-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Influence of women’s workforce participation and pensions on total fertility rate: a theoretical and econometric study

Original language description

This paper explores the influence of the two historical and arguably most important correlates of fertility, i.e. female labor participation and pensions. We confirm the long-established negative impact of government provided pensions and all other welfare state social policies except pro-family ones on fertility between 1990 and 2013 in OECD countries. We also claim the reports about positive correlation between female labor participation and fertility, which caused a recent upsurge in research, to be spurious. Our results show a statistically insignificant relationship as a result of pro-family policies designed to offset the negative impact of female labor participation. We conclude that current societies in developed countries continue to have an unsustainable level of reproduction to an extent allowing depopulation, largely due to high and ever increasing female labor participation and a high level of social expenditure, particularly on pensions. We suggest an alternative set of pro-family and pro-natality policies and a decrease in social expenditure as a possible solution.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Euroasian Economic Review

ISSN

2147-429X

e-ISSN

2147-429X

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

51-72

UT code for WoS article

000432479300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85027973790