@techreport{Furtado2008Immigrant,
abstract = {The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and childrearing facing American women. The evidence we present indicates that low-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of college graduate native females. Although childbearing is generally associated with temporary exit from the labor force, immigrant-led declines in the price of child-care has reduced the extent of role incompatibility between fertility and work.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Delia Furtado and Heinrich Hock},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D10; 330; Fertility; labor supply; immigration; Frauenerwerbst\"{a}tigkeit; Fruchtbarkeit; Arbeitsangebot; Kinderbetreuung; Kosten; Migranten; Ungelernte Arbeitskr\"{a}fte; Niedriglohn; USA},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008060504},
number = {3506},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States},
type = {IZA Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34927},
year = {2008}
}
