Arbeitspapier
Who cares: Deciphering China's female employment paradox
Female post-childbirth labor market participation and labor intensity are extraordinarily high in China, given that public childcare subsidies are limited and supportive policies for childbearing female employees are largely absent. Establishing a panel dataset that tracks female employment and childbirth, we find that such a paradox is well-explained by the intra-family childcare support provided by grandparents. Correcting the selection bias that stems from women's fertility choices using the propensity score matching difference-in-difference model, we find that women without grandparental support suffer a substantial drop in post-childbirth employment, while women with grandparental support even experience a rise in employment after childbirth. It takes women without grandparental support twice as long to recover their employment after childbirth. Finally, we find that childbirth does not decrease women's labor intensity due to a lack of labor market flexibility, and that women face a stay-or-quit dilemma when grandparental childcare support is absent.
- ISBN
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978-952-323-376-8
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: BOFIT Discussion Papers ; No. 7/2021
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models; Threshold Regression Models
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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Financial frictions
management practices
CO2 emissions
energy efficiencygrandparental childcare
PSM-DID
fertility choice
female employment
labor intensity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Yu, Haiyue
Cao, Jin
Kang, Shulong
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Finland, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)
- (wo)
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Helsinki
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Yu, Haiyue
- Cao, Jin
- Kang, Shulong
- Bank of Finland, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)
Entstanden
- 2021
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