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Title: Immigrant Labor, Household Services and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and childrearing facing American women. The evidence we present indicates that low-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the U.S. child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of college graduate native females. Although childbearing is generally associated with temporary exit from the labor force, immigrant-led declines in the price of child-care have reduced the extent of role incompatibility between fertility and work.

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Authors: Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: Detroit, MI

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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