Can immigrants help women "have it all"? Immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Artikel

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% of the immigrant-induced increases in the joint likelihood of childbearing and labor force participation in the US between the years 1980 and 2000.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of Migration ; ISSN: 2193-9039 ; Volume: 4 ; Year: 2015 ; Pages: 1-19 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior: General ; International Migration ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Subject: Child care ; Fertility ; Labor force participation ; Immigration ; Tetrachoric correlation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Furtado, Delia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40176-015-0043-x
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149442
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET