Culture as learning. The evolution of female labor force participation over a century.

Autor/in	Fernandez, Raquel
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Culture as learning. The evolution of female labor force participation over a century. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kultur als Lernen. Die Entwicklung von Frauenerwerbstätigkeit im Laufe eines Jahrhunderts.
Quelle	Cambridge (2007), 38 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 13373
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Gesellschaft; Einstellungsänderung; Meinung; Rollenverständnis; Rollendistanz; Soziale Mobilität; Soziale Norm; Generationenbeziehung; Ehefrau; Frauenbild; Geschlechterrolle; Lernen; Geschichte (Histor); Erwerbsbeteiligung; Erwerbsverhalten; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; 20. Jahrhundert; Arbeitspapier
Abstract	"Married women's labor force participation has increased dramatically over the last century. Why this has occurred has been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates the role of culture as learning in this change. To do so, it develops a dynamic model of culture in which individuals hold heterogeneous beliefs regarding the relative long-run payoffs for women who work in the market versus the home. These beliefs evolve rationally via an intergenerational learning process. Women are assumed to learn about the long-term payoffs of working by observing (noisy) private and public signals. They then make a work decision. This process generically generates an S-shaped figure for female labor force participation, which is what is found in the data. The S shape results from the dynamics of learning. I calibrate the model to several key statistics and show that it does a good job in replicating the quantitative evolution of female LFP in the US over the last 120 years. The model highlights a new dynamic role for changes in wages via their effect on intergenerational learning. The calibration shows that this role was quantitatively important in several decades." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1880 bis 2000. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2008/1