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Title: The Rise of Low-Skill Service Employment: the Role of Dual-Income Households
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: This paper unveils an important but unexplored channel for the growth of low-skill service employment between 1960 and 2000: the spillover from dual-income households. In particular, we analyze the cross-city association between variation in dual-income households and employment growth in home production substitutes. To address concerns about endogeneity, we use the fact that married working women were extremely concentrated on administrative support occupations, while their birth places were heterogeneously distributed. Our results show that one more dual-income couple creates 0.3 low-skill service jobs in local economies, and the effect mainly comes from the home production service sector. JEL: E24, J12, J21, R12
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Authors: Lee, Jongkwan; Shim, Myungkyu; Yang, Hee-Seung
Conference Name: 2018 Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Conference
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
Countries: United States