Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman

Marriage and labor market outcomes are deeply related, particularly for women. A large literature finds that the labor supply decisions of married women respond to their husbands’ employment status, wages, and job characteristics. There is also evidence that the effects of spouse characteristics on labor market outcomes operate not just through standard neoclassical cross-wage and income effects but also through household bargaining and gender norm effects, in which the relative incomes of husband and wife affect the distribution of marital surplus, marital satisfaction, and marital stability. Marriage market characteristics affect marital status and spouse characteristics, as well as the outside option, and therefore bargaining power, within marriage. Marriage market characteristics can therefore affect premarital investments, which ultimately affect labor market outcomes within marriage and also affect labor supply decisions within marriage conditional on these premarital investments.

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The Impact of Economic Shocks on Workers' Labor Market Outcomes

10.20378/irb-51755 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Hannah Illing

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Labor Supply ◽

Labor Market Outcomes ◽

Job Displacement ◽

Market Impact ◽

Economic Shocks ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Cross Border ◽

Supply Shock ◽

The Impact

In this dissertation, I analyze the effect of economic shocks on workers' labor market outcomes. In the first part of this thesis (Chapter 2), I investigate a labor supply shock in the form of cross-border migration. Chapters 3 and 4 in the second part of this thesis focus on the labor market impact of job displacement, resulting from a mass layoff, on individual workers’ careers.

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The effects of (different types of) immigrants on labor market outcomes of (different groups of) natives

International Journal of Manpower ◽

10.1108/ijm-11-2014-0229 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 338-353 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muhammad Asali

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Labor Supply ◽

Labor Market Outcomes ◽

Complementarity Effect ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Content Type ◽

Heterogeneous Effects ◽

Native Workers ◽

Different Types ◽

Israeli Arabs

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of different types of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of different native groups. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a quasi-experimental approach, utilizing the border closures policy as well as political instability and economic conditions in the major countries of origin as exogenous sources of variation in the number of immigrants, to measure the effect of an immigrant-induced labor supply shock of each immigrant type (Palestinians and foreign guest workers) on the wage and employment of native workers (Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews). Findings The effects of immigrants on local labor market outcomes vary with their origin. The different native groups, moreover, are affected differently by each type of immigrants. Specifically, a foreign-worker-induced increase in the labor supply negatively affects only the least-skilled Jewish workers. In contrast, a 10 percent Palestinian-induced increase in the labor supply increases the wage of Israeli Arabs by 3.4 percent, suggesting a net complementarity effect. Short-term slight employment adjustments occur at the intensive rather than the extensive margin. Originality/value The paper studies heterogeneous effects of immigrants by their type; also it studies heterogeneous effects experienced by different native groups. This paper informs the policy discussion about immigration and its effects on native workers.

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Effects of Fatherhood on Male Wage and Labor Supply in Japan

The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy ◽

10.1515/bejeap-2013-0097 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 437-474

Author(s):

Shiho Yukawa

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Labor Supply ◽

Labor Market Outcomes ◽

The United States ◽

Hourly Wage ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Wage Rates ◽

Japanese Male ◽

Using Data ◽

Early Cohort

Abstract Using data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers (JPSC) for the period 1994–2007, I examine the effect of childbirth on fathers’ wage rates and labor supply in Japan. I also compare the effects of fatherhood between different cohorts by dividing the JPSC sample into two birth-year cohorts (those born in or before 1960 and those born after 1960). The results show that the birth of children significantly increases hourly wage rates by 2.3% and annual work by 69 hours. Comparing these results to those of studies based in the United States and Germany shows that while the effect of childbirth on the Japanese male labor supply is large, it is relatively small on wage rates. The study also shows that childbirth has different impacts on labor market outcomes for the two cohorts. In the early cohort, the birth of children significantly increases wage rates, but has no significant effect on the labor supply. On the contrary, for the later cohort, the birth of children does not increase wage rates and there is a significant increase in the labor supply. Finally, I examine how the gender difference of children impacts labor market outcomes. Although its impact is not so large, the birth of sons has a larger effect than the birth of daughters.

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Children and labor market outcomes: separating the effects of the first three children

Journal of Population Economics ◽

10.1007/s00148-020-00807-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Simen Markussen ◽

Marte Strøm

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Labor Supply ◽

Labor Market Outcomes ◽

Middle Part ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Second Child ◽

Welfare Benefits ◽

First Child ◽

Health Related ◽

Short Run

Abstract We use miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility to estimate the effect of the first three children on women’s and men’s labor market outcomes. For women, we find that the effect is almost the same for the first, second and third child in the short run. The reduction in female earnings in the three first years after birth is on average 28 percent for the first child, 29 percent for the second child and 22 percent for the third child. The reduction is caused by drops in labor supply at the intensive margin and the extensive margin, concentrated among women in the middle part of the income distribution. There is considerable catching up after five years, but effects of the first two children persist ten years later, although they are imprecisely estimated. For men, we find evidence of increased labor supply and earnings after the first two children. We also find indications that having the first child increases take-up of health-related welfare benefits, such as disability insurance, for women, and that having a second and/or a third child increases couple stability.

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