日本妇女的教育和婚姻决定以及《平等就业机会法》的作用

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Human Capital Pub Date : 2019-05-31 DOI:10.1086/702924

L. N. Edwards, Takuya Hasebe, Tadashi Sakai

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引用次数: 12

摘要

1985年的《日本平等就业机会法》旨在减少劳动力市场中的性别歧视，特别是在职业导向的工作中。本文调查了这一行为是否对女性的婚姻决策产生了意想不到的影响。利用日本消费者小组调查的微观数据，我们对女性在大学教育和是否结婚方面的相关决定进行了建模，重点关注女性是否在32岁之前结婚。我们的研究结果显示，大学教育与婚姻之间的负相关关系，在EEOA后的女性队列中，这种关系比EEOA前的队列大得多，这与我们的假设一致，即与EEOA相关的职业机会增加刺激女性推迟或放弃婚姻。

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Education and Marriage Decisions of Japanese Women and the Role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act

The Japanese Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) of 1985 aimed to reduce gender discrimination in the labor market, especially for career-oriented jobs. This paper investigates whether this act had an unanticipated effect on women’s marriage decisions. Using micro data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, we model women’s interrelated decisions on university education and whether to marry, focusing on whether women have married by age 32. Our results show a negative relationship between university education and marriage that is much greater for post-EEOA cohorts of women than for pre-EEOA cohorts, consistent with our hypothesis that the enhanced career opportunities associated with the EEOA stimulated women to delay or forgo marriage.

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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.