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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26931 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26931 |
Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants | |
Francine D. Blau; Lawrence Kahn; Matthew L. Comey; Amanda R. Eng; Pamela A. Meyerhofer; Alexander Willén | |
发表日期 | 2020-04-06 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks differently depending upon the characteristics of the source countries from which they emigrated. Using data from the 2003-2017 waves of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), we find that first-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index) allocate tasks more equally, while those from less gender equal source countries allocate tasks more traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse characteristics. There is also some indication of an effect of parent source country gender equality for second-generation immigrants, particularly for second-generation men with children. Our findings suggest that broader cultural factors do influence the gender division of labor in the household. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26931 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584604 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francine D. Blau,Lawrence Kahn,Matthew L. Comey,et al. Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants. 2020. |
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