Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

35 Pages Posted: 11 Aug 2005

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Pierre-Carl Michaud

University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) - Department of Economics; Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Economiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE); RAND Corporation, Labor and Population; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Netspar

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

University of Luxembourg; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

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Date Written: August 2005

Abstract

We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial condition solutions and non parametric distributions of unobserved heterogeneity. Results are used to relate cross-country differences in the employment rate to the estimated dynamic regimes. We find that cross-country differences in the employment rate and the persistence of employment transitions of married women are mostly due to composition effects related to education and unobserved characteristics rather than state-dependence effects or the dynamic effect of fertility.

Keywords: ntertemporal labor supply, female employment, dynamic binary choice models, initial conditions

JEL Classification: C23, C25, D91, J22

Suggested Citation

Michaud, Pierre-Carl and Tatsiramos, Konstantinos, Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe (August 2005). IZA Discussion Paper No. 1706, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=780906 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.780906

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