Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215253 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12857
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction industry, and their wives. We use license requirements to divide workers into two groups who are more and less exposed to labor market competition. We find that non-licensed workers experience a fall in labor earnings relative to licensed workers after the EU enlargement. Increased wife's labor supply and earnings compensate almost 40 percent of the loss. We do not find a similar change in the division of labor in home production.
Subjects: 
immigration
female employment
division of labor
parental leave
JEL: 
J21
J22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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