IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/asi/adprev/v7y2019i4p261-276id243.html

Population Policy and its Influences on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from China

Author

Listed:
  • Ma, Xinxin

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Toyama, Japan.)

  • Zhang, Jingwen

    (School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, China.)

Abstract

To evaluate the effects of population policy on labor supply in China, using the longitudinal data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1989 to 2015, this paper investigates the influences of the total number of children and parity on the Chinese female labor supply including both participation in work (decision to work or not work) and employment status (to become an irregular worker or regular worker). The fixed effects model, the random effects model, and the instrumental variables method are used to address the heterogeneity and the endogeneity problems. The results show that as the total number of children increases, the probability of the mother becoming a regular worker may decrease, and the negative influence for the later births is greater than for the first birth. However, the influences of the total number of children and parity on women’s participation in work are small. Additionally, the employment status of women in urban area and highly educated women are more likely to be influenced by higher parities.

Suggested Citation

  • Ma, Xinxin & Zhang, Jingwen, 2019. "Population Policy and its Influences on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from China," Asian Development Policy Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 7(4), pages 261-276.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:adprev:v:7:y:2019:i:4:p:261-276:id:243
    DOI: 10.18488/journal.107.2019.74.261.276
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5008/article/view/243
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5008/article/view/243/462
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.18488/journal.107.2019.74.261.276?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ma, Xinxin, 2022. "Parenthood and the gender wage gap in urban China," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:asi:adprev:v:7:y:2019:i:4:p:261-276:id:243. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Robert Allen (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5008/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.