IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/esj/esriea/197e.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Effect of Marriage on Household Labor Supply

Author

Listed:
  • Shiho YUKAWA

Abstract

This study examines the effect of the husband's job loss on childbirth by employing the retro-spective panel data built by the employment history of Keio Household Panel Survey. The following three points are clarified by the results of the fixed effect logit, random effect logit, and linear probability model. First, the estimated results indicated that the decrease in the probability of childbirth was observed at one year after the husband's job loss, which is caused by a considerable drop in the husband's income. In contrast, a persistent decrease in the probability of childbirth was not observed. Second, the estimated results indicated that the decrease in the probability of childbirth was observed only in cases in which the husband's educational qualification was low. This is because re-employment is difficult and the negative effect of the job loss snowballs in the case of the hus-band's low educational qualification. Third, the longer the husband remained unemployed after the job loss, the lower was the probability of childbirth. JEL Classification Codes：J12,J13,J60 Keywords：Childbirth, Husband’s job loss, Retrospective panel data

Suggested Citation

  • Shiho YUKAWA, 2018. "The Effect of Marriage on Household Labor Supply," Economic Analysis, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), vol. 197, pages 95-112, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:esj:esriea:197e
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.esri.go.jp/jp/archive/bun/bun197/bun197e.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General

    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:esj:esriea:197e. 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: HORI nobuko (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/esrgvjp.html .

    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.