Trend of Chinese Urban Female Labor Participation in Transition
PENG Qingqing, LI Hongbin, SHI Xinzheng, WU Binzhen
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Stanford Center for International Development/ Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University; Institute for Quality Development Strategy, Wuhan University
Abstract:
Experiencing continuously marketization, how Chinese female respond in labor market have drawn extra attention. This paper adapted Urban Household Survey to capture the trend of labor force participation rate (lfpr) in urban China. We observe that male have higher lfpr than female. Education, marriage and co-residency with children have significant impact on female labor supply. Based on Connelly's (1992) model considering labor supply of mother with children and the Common Preference Models, we constructed labor supply model of each member in the family. We empirically show that local marketization have significant negative effect on female labor participation through increasing price of housework service.
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