Labor supply of married foreign-born women in credit-constrained households

Seik Kim; Nalina Varanasi

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2019.07.019

Labor supply of married foreign-born women in credit-constrained households

Seik Kim^*
, Nalina Varanasi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In credit-constrained households, some family members who would otherwise not work participate in the labor market. This particular supply of labor, however, is expected to decrease when their families overcome credit constraints. To examine this family investment hypothesis, we develop a test which exploits the dynamic features of the labor supply of married foreign-born women in the United States. Empirical findings, based on the matched March Current Population Survey, are consistent with the hypothesis. This paper also finds that previous results which refute the hypothesis are reversed when the sample is confined to women working in low-skill jobs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	411-421
Number of pages	11
Journal	Economic Modelling
Volume	81
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.07.019
Publication status	Published - 2019 Sept

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Funding Information:
The authors have benefited from helpful comments made by Yoram Barzel, Delia Furtado, Chirok Han, Lawrence Kahn, Shelly Lundberg, Claus Pörtner, two anonymous reviewers, the Editor, and seminar participants at the annual meeting of the European Society for Population Economics, the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, the Asian meeting of the Econometric Society, University of Seoul, University of Zürich, University of Washington, and the UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016S1A5A8017870).

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Keywords

Family investment hypothesis
Female labor supply
Immigration
Occupation mobility

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Economics and Econometrics

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Labor supply of married foreign-born women in credit-constrained households

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