INTERPRETING TRENDS IN LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION AND THE FERTILITY

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BLANCHET, D
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POPULATION | 1992年 / 47卷 / 02期
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10.2307/1533915
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C921 [人口统计学];
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The growth of women's labor force participation at given family size is often quoted as suggesting some independance between fertility trends and activity trends. This paper shows that such an inference is incorrect because, in any case, there cannot be any change in aggregate activity and aggregate fertility without any change of at least one of both variables after controlling for the other. This observation being made, we consider French data between 1968 and 1982 which suggest that, conversely, fertility has little changed when activity is controlled for. We try to interpret this with a small model of behaviour whose three parameters are: the average value attributed to work, the value attributed to large families, and an index of incompatibility between activity and childbearing. It is concluded that it is variations of the first of these parameters which provide the best explanation for the joint trend in activity and fertility.
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