Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96010 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011-25
Publisher: 
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan
Abstract: 
Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women work abroad during the same time period when they can bear children, their additional income generates a substitution effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period when they bear children, their additional income generates the income effect on fertility, which is not different from that of men's additional income.
Subjects: 
Guest-worker migration
Gender
Fertility
JEL: 
F22
J13
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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