Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

Published Jul 13, 2005

The authors use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behaviour 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. They 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.

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Michaud, Pierre-Carl and Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2005. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR273.html.
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