Fertility and women's employment reconsidered: A macro-level time-series analysis for developed countries, 1960-2000

Population Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-120

  Engelhardt, Henriette ^a   Kögel, Tomas ^b   Prskawetz, Alexia ^a  

^a VIENNA INSTITUTE OF DEMOGRAPHY   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Female employment; Fertility; Granger causality; Time series analysis; Vector error correction models

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; LABOR PARTICIPATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0742267126     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472032000167715     Document Type: Article

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