Globalization, Gender, and the Family

Wolfgang Keller and Hale Utar

No 25247, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Facing the same labor demand shock through imports from China, we show that men and women make different labor market and family adjustments that result in significant long-run gender inequality. The gender gap is driven by the female biological clock. Using population registers and matched employer-employee data from Denmark, we document that especially women in their late 30s, towards the end of their biological clock, decide to have a baby as the shock causes displacement. High-earning women in leadership positions and women who need to acquire new human capital are central because their new employment would require particularly high investments that are incompatible with having a newborn in the short time remaining on the biological clock. While children penalize women in the labor market, we show that due to the biological clock an otherwise gender-neutral shock leads to a gender gap in the labor market.

JEL-codes: F16 F6 J12 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-11
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Published as Wolfgang Keller & Hale Utar, 2022. "Globalization, Gender, and the Family," The Review of Economic Studies, vol 89(6), pages 3381-3409.

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