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| Title: | | Adieu Rabenmutter: The effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare  |
| Authors: | | Borck, Rainald |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper: Social Protection 3337 |
| Abstract: | | This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist multiple equilibria: one with zero childcare provision, low fertility and female labour supply and high wage gap, and one with high childcare provision, high fertility and female labour supply and low wage gap. |
| Subjects: | | cultural preferences fertility female labour supply wage gap childcare |
| JEL: | | J13 J21 J16 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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