Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106552 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8614
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been accompanied by decreases in the strength of the negative correlation between childbearing and labor force participation, an often-used measure of the difficulty with which women combine motherhood and labor market work. Using a structured statistical model, I show that the immigrant-induced attenuation of this negative correlation can explain about 24 percent of the immigrant-induced increases in the joint likelihood of childbearing and labor force participation in the U.S. between the years 1980 and 2000.
Subjects: 
child care
fertility
labor force participation
immigration
tetrachoric correlation
JEL: 
D10
F22
J13
J22
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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