Effects of different divorce probabilities on female labor force participation and fertility

Abstract: 'During the last decades, increases in divorce rates and female labor force participation have taken place all across Europe. At the same time, fertility rates have markedly sunk. While the causal relation between fertility and female labor force participation has been discussed extensively, we address the possibility of the rise in divorce risk and the change in divorce regimes as antecedents of both, risen female labor force participation and low fertility rates. We argue that unilateral divorce regimes increase married women's investments in market related human capital as opposed to investments in household productivity skills. The reason is that this should lower their threat points and thus their marital bargaining power as well as their outside options. Furthermore, also higher probabilities of getting divorced should reduce the propensity of rationally acting wives to accumulate marital specific capital if husbands can unilaterally leave the marriage. We use longitudinal da

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: Auswirkungen von verschiedenen Scheidungswahrscheinlichkeiten auf die weibliche Arbeitsmarktpartizipation und Fertilität
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource, 24 S.
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Arbeitspapiere / Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung ; Bd. 102

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2007
• Urheber: Kneip, Thorsten ; Bauer, Gerrit
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Universität Mannheim, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-110661
• Rechteinformation: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:48 MEZ