Type of employer and fertility of working women: does working in the public sector or in a large private firm matter?
利用20世纪最后30年意大利职业女性的代表性样本，研究发现公共部门或大型私营企业的女性更可能在工作期间生育，稳定的合同也提高了生育概率。
This work investigates how fertility rates of working women have been influenced by employer characteristics (public versus private sector and small versus large firms) and features of the employment contracts using a representative sample of Italian working women in the last 30 years of the twentieth century. In particular, we find that women working in the public sector have a higher probability of having a child during a working spell than women working in the private sector. Furthermore, women working in large private sector firms, who enjoy stronger employment protection, have a higher probability of having a child than those working in smaller firms. In turn, more-stable contracts also increase the likelihood of having a child during a working spell. Results are robust to controlling for individual unobserved heterogeneity and for the possible endogeneity of working in the public sector.