|
EconStor >
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn >
IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34927
|
| | |
| Title: | | Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States  |
| Authors: | | Furtado, Delia Hock, Heinrich |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3506 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Fertility labor supply immigration |
| JEL: | | D10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008060504 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
|
| |
| | |
Download bibliographical data as:
BibTeX
|
| |
Share on:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34927
|
Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|