Male vs. Female Guest-Worker Migration: Does it Matter for Fertility in the Source Country?

Leonid Azarnert

No 2011-25, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women work abroad during the same time period when they can bear children, their additional income generates a substitution effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period when they bear children, their additional income generates the income effect on fertility, which is not different from that of men's additional income.

Keywords: Guest-worker migration; Gender; Fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2011-08
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