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This paper examines unemployed workers' willingness to move for work and its relationship to their unemployment duration in Spain. We use a hypothetical question in the Spanish Labour Force Survey: ‘Would you accept a job offer which implied a change of residence?’ The main finding is that, while family responsibility, age and education are important in determining individuals’ migration willingness, the duration of unemployment does not show any significant effect, even after controlling for unobserved fixed individual heterogeneity. However, the significant improvement in migration willingness after the exhaustion of unemployment benefits (or when other household members become unemployed) suggests that economic incentives could play an important role in increasing worker mobility. We also find that job‐finding probability is significantly higher among those with positive migration attitudes than among others.Universidad del País Vasco

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One of the important determinants of fertility is the value of children as perceived by parents. This paper estimates gender-and age-specific values of children using a dynamic programming model. The underlying hypothesis is that observed fertility outcome for any couple is the solution to their life-eyc1e optimization problem. Findings from the Korean data indicate that children impose net costs when young and net benefits when old. Both the early costs and the later benefits are larger for male children than female children, and for better-educated women than lowereducated women. Simulation studies which use estimated values of children suggest that a decrease in the costs of abortion and pre-natal gender-screening tests may raise the male-birth ratio through gender-selective abortions.