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- Title
Globalization, Gender, and the Family.
- Authors
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hale
- Abstract
Facing the same labour demand shock through imports from China, we show that men and women make different labour market and family adjustments that result in significant long-run gender inequality. The gender gap is driven by the female biological clock. Using population registers and matched employer-employee data from Denmark, we document that especially women in their late 30s, towards the end of their biological clock, decide to have a baby as the shock causes displacement. High-earning women in leadership positions and women who need to acquire new human capital are central because their new employment would require particularly high investments that are incompatible with having a newborn in the short time remaining on the biological clock. While children penalize women in the labour market, we show that due to the biological clock an otherwise gender-neutral shock leads to a gender gap in the labour market.
- Subjects
DENMARK; CHINA; BIOLOGICAL rhythms; GENDER; WOMEN leaders; INFANTS; LABOR market; HUMAN capital; GENDER inequality; LEADERSHIP in women
- Publication
Review of Economic Studies, 2022, Vol 89, Issue 6, p3381
- ISSN
0034-6527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/restud/rdac012