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rev_number: 9
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datestamp: 2016-10-03 12:47:41
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creators_name: Moser, E.
creators_name: Prskawetz, A.
creators_name: Feichtinger, G.
creators_name: Barakat, B.
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creators_id: 1555
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title: Maximizing female labor force participation in a stationary population
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_pop
keywords: Age-specific fertility; Family policy; Labor force participation; Lagrange principle; Optimal control; Stationary population
abstract: As many European countries have to cope with a shrinking and aging labor force, one important goal of redistributing work is to increase female labor force participation. In some countries, however, this increase could come at the cost of a reduced fertility rate as childcare facilities might be rare or institutional settings and social support are not sufficiently family friendly. In this paper we investigate how and especially at which ages female labor force participation could be increased in a country such as Austria, with an apparently strong negative correlation between childbearing and labor force participation, without reducing fertility even further. Our results indicate that an increase in female labor force participation is indeed possible if the participation rate remains low in the most fertile ages. It turns out, however, that the optimal labor force participation for females strongly depends on the initial fertility pattern of the female population.
date: 2016
date_type: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
id_number: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39120-5_10
creators_browse_id: 100
creators_browse_id: 2589
creators_browse_id: 24
full_text_status: none
series: Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance
volume: 22
place_of_pub: Cham, Switzerland
pagerange: 167-188
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-319-39120-5
issn: 1566-0419
book_title: Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making
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fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
citation:   Moser, E., Prskawetz, A. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/100.html>, Feichtinger, G. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/2589.html>, & Barakat, B. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/24.html>  (2016).  Maximizing female labor force participation in a stationary population.    In:  Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making.  pp. 167-188 Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.  ISBN 978-3-319-39120-5 10.1007/978-3-319-39120-5_10 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39120-5_10>.