Dynamic female labor supply.

Autor/inn/en	Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat
Titel	Dynamic female labor supply. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Dynamisches Erwerbsverhalten von Frauen.
Quelle	In: Econometrica, 79 (2011) 6, S. 1675-1726 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-9682; 1468-0262
DOI	10.3982/ECTA8803
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Sozialer Wert; Ehefrau; Ehescheidung; Familie; Geburtenrückgang; Frau; Kinderbetreuung; Geschichte (Histor); Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Wertewandel; Arbeitsteilung; Erwerbsquote; Kostenentwicklung; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Beruf; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Erwerbsverhalten; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Qualifikationsniveau; Familienstand; Geschlechtsspezifik; USA
Abstract	"The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic changes to have taken place in the economy during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last 50 years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant. To empirically analyze these trends, we estimate a female dynamic labor supply model using an extended version of Eckstein and Wolpin (1989) to compare the various explanations in the literature for the observed trends. This dynamic model provides a much better fit to the life-cycle employment pattern than a static version of the model and a standard static reduced form model (Heckman (1979)). The main finding using the dynamic model is that the rise in education levels accounts for about 33 percent of the increase in female employment, and the rise in wages and narrowing of the gender wage gap account for another 20 percent, while about 40 percent remains unexplained by observed household characteristics. We show that this unexplained portion can be empirically attributed to cohort-specific changes in preferences or the costs of child-rearing and household maintenance. Finally, the decline in fertility and the increase in divorce rates account for only a small share of the increase in female employment rates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; historisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1962 bis 2007.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/3