Assessing the Smooth Rise in Mothers’ Employment as Children Age

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Human Capital Pub Date : 2018-11-13 DOI:10.1086/700077

Darren Lubotsky, Javaeria Qureshi

引用次数: 9

Abstract

We study the trajectory of maternal employment as children age and assess the factors underlying the smooth increase in mothers’ employment as their youngest child ages. Our results indicate that the rising employment profile is largely not associated with falling child care costs, changes in nonlabor income, or marital dissolution as children age. Differences in educational attainment and wage opportunities are related to some of the increase in employment when children are under 4 years old but do not explain any after that age. We discuss explanations for the rising pattern of mothers’ employment that might be consistent with our results.

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评估随着孩子年龄的增长，母亲就业率的平稳上升

我们研究了母亲随子女年龄的就业轨迹，并评估了母亲随最小子女年龄就业平稳增加的因素。我们的研究结果表明，就业率的上升在很大程度上与儿童保育成本的下降、非劳动收入的变化或随着儿童年龄的增长而婚姻破裂无关。教育程度和工资机会的差异在一定程度上与4岁以下儿童的就业增加有关，但不能解释该年龄之后的就业增加。我们讨论了母亲就业模式上升的原因，这可能与我们的研究结果一致。

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Journal of Human Capital ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Human Capital is dedicated to human capital and its expanding economic and social roles in the knowledge economy. Developed in response to the central role human capital plays in determining the production, allocation, and distribution of economic resources and in supporting long-term economic growth, JHC is a forum for theoretical and empirical work on human capital—broadly defined to include education, health, entrepreneurship, and intellectual and social capital—and related public policy analyses. JHC encompasses microeconomic, macroeconomic, and international economic perspectives on the theme of human capital. The journal offers a platform for discussion of topics ranging from education, labor, health, and family economics.