Income effect of labor market participation by married women in Japan

Yukiko Abe

No 372, Discussion paper series. A from Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University

Abstract: Does the high income of the husband explain the low labor market participation by highly-educated women in Japan? In this paper, I examine the income effect gradient of participation using the Employment Status Survey. Negative income effect –the pattern that a high income of the husband decreases labor market participation by the wife– is present for the employment-to-population ratio for annual income above 4 million yen. Negative income effect becomes much weaker when I separate regular and non-regular employment. When I separate regular and non-regular employment, the income effect and other supply variables explain only a small fraction of the differences between participation rates of college graduates and high school graduates.

Keywords: income effect; female employment; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2024-02
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