Year: 2006
Type: report
Abstract: Recent demographic literature shows in Swedish micro-level data a\npositive effect of female wage income or female education on fertility.\nThe literature explains this finding with Swedish family policies of high\nsubsidies for bought-in child care and generous parental leave benefits\nthat are calculated on the basis of a woman's prior wage income. Both\npolicies would cause the substitution effect from an increase in female\nwages on fertility to be dominated by its income effect. This paper\nshows within an economic model that there are offsetting effects from\nSwedish family policy that cause the reduction in the magnitude of\nthe substitution effect of female wages to be most likely rather small.
Author: Tomas Koegel
Institution: Loughborough University
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2133685747