Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Educated Women
Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Educated Women
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低技能移民与受过高等教育的女性的劳动力供应
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2009
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Patricia Cort
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Patricia Cort
低技能移民在服务业就业中占很大比例，而服务业是家庭生产的密切替代品。本文研究了低技能移民供应的增加是否导致了时间机会成本最高的高技能女性改变了她们的时间使用决策。利用移民集中度的跨城市差异，我们发现低技能移民增加了市场工作的平均时间，以及拥有专业学位或博士学位的女性长时间工作的可能性。因此，对于这一教育群体中的妇女，我们发现花在家务劳动上的时间减少，支出增加
Low-skilled immigrants represent a signicant fraction of employment in services that are close substitutes of household production. This paper studies whether the increased supply of low-skilled immigrants has led high-skilled women, with the highest opportunity cost of time, to change their time-use decisions. Exploiting cross-city variation in immigrant concentration, we nd that low-skilled immigration increases average hours of market work and the probability of working long hours of women with a professional degree or Ph.D. Consistently, for women in this education group, we nd a decrease in time spent in household work and an increase in expenditures