Globalization, Gender and the Family

Utar H, Keller W (2018) NBER Working Paper Series; 25247.
Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Utar, HaleUniBi; Keller, Wolfgang
Abstract / Bemerkung
This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy’s fertility rate and family structure because it influences work-life balance. Employing population register data on new births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee linked data for Denmark, we show that lower labor market opportunities due to Chinese import competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave taking and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer divorces. This pro-family, pro-child shift is driven largely by women, not men. Correspondingly, the negative earnings implications of the rising import competition are concentrated on women, with gender earnings inequality increasing. The market versus family choice turns out to be a major determinant of worker adjustment costs to labor market shocks. While older workers respond to the shock rather similarly whether female or male, for young workers the fertility response takes away the adjustment advantage they typically have–if the worker is a woman. We find that the female biological clock–women having difficulties to conceive beyond their early forties–is of central importance, rather than the composition of jobs and workplaces, as well as other potential causes.
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Globalization; Gender Gap; Labor Market Outcomes; Trade Adjustment Costs; Fertility; Marriage; Biological Clock
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Serientitel
NBER Working Paper Series
Band
25247
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2932610

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Utar H, Keller W. Globalization, Gender and the Family. NBER Working Paper Series. Vol 25247. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research; 2018.
Utar, H., & Keller, W. (2018). Globalization, Gender and the Family (NBER Working Paper Series, 25247). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:10.4119/unibi/2932610
Utar, Hale, and Keller, Wolfgang. 2018. Globalization, Gender and the Family. Vol. 25247. NBER Working Paper Series. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Utar, H., and Keller, W. (2018). Globalization, Gender and the Family. NBER Working Paper Series, 25247, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Utar, H., & Keller, W., 2018. Globalization, Gender and the Family, NBER Working Paper Series, no.25247, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
H. Utar and W. Keller, Globalization, Gender and the Family, NBER Working Paper Series, vol. 25247, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018.
Utar, H., Keller, W.: Globalization, Gender and the Family. NBER Working Paper Series, 25247. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA (2018).
Utar, Hale, and Keller, Wolfgang. Globalization, Gender and the Family. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018. NBER Working Paper Series. 25247.

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