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Globalization, Gender, and the Family.
- Source :
- Review of Economic Studies; Nov2022, Vol. 89 Issue 6, p3381-3409, 29p, 7 Charts, 6 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2022
-
Abstract
- Facing the same labour demand shock through imports from China, we show that men and women make different labour market and family adjustments that result in significant long-run gender inequality. The gender gap is driven by the female biological clock. Using population registers and matched employer-employee data from Denmark, we document that especially women in their late 30s, towards the end of their biological clock, decide to have a baby as the shock causes displacement. High-earning women in leadership positions and women who need to acquire new human capital are central because their new employment would require particularly high investments that are incompatible with having a newborn in the short time remaining on the biological clock. While children penalize women in the labour market, we show that due to the biological clock an otherwise gender-neutral shock leads to a gender gap in the labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00346527
- Volume :
- 89
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Review of Economic Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160094298
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac012