工作灵活性对生育能力的影响

IF 2.6 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102787

Bernt Bratsberg , Selma Walther

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摘要

利用挪威首次Covid-19封锁作为提高工作灵活性的实验室，我们发现出生率显著持续增长10%。利用Goldin（2014）基于职业特征的工作灵活性度量，我们表明，在封锁之前，生育率的增长集中在“贪婪工作”中灵活性较低的女性。我们将这种直觉形式化为一个理论模型，即灵活性的提高增加了女性的时间预算，并提高了高收入女性的生育率。在新冠疫情封锁期间，工作灵活性的提高使从事不灵活工作的高收入女性能够缓解职业与家庭之间的权衡。

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The impact of flexibility at work on fertility

Leveraging the first Covid-19 lockdown in Norway as a laboratory for an increase in work flexibility, we uncover a significant and persistent 10% increase in births. Using the Goldin (2014) measure of work flexibility based on occupation characteristics, we show that fertility increases were concentrated among women in “greedy jobs” with lower flexibility prior to lockdown. We formalize this intuition in a theoretical model where a rise in flexibility increases a woman’s time budget and boosts the fertility of higher earning women. The increase in work flexibility under Covid-19 lockdown allowed high-earning women in inflexible jobs to alleviate the career-family trade-off.

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Labour Economics ECONOMICS-

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3.60

自引率

8.30%

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142

期刊介绍： Labour Economics is devoted to publishing research in the field of labour economics both on the microeconomic and on the macroeconomic level, in a balanced mix of theory, empirical testing and policy applications. It gives due recognition to analysis and explanation of institutional arrangements of national labour markets and the impact of these institutions on labour market outcomes.