Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities
By D. Black, Natalia A. Kolesnikova, Lowell J. Taylor. 2007
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This paper documents a little-noticed feature of US labor markets—very large variation in the labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on cross-city differences in commuting times as a potential explanation for this variation. We start with a model in which commuting times introduce non-convexities into the budget set. Empirical evidence is consistent with the model’s predictions: Labor force participation rates of married women are negatively correlated with the metropolitan area commuting time. Also, metropolitan areas with larger increases in average commuting time in 1980–2000 had slower growth in the labor force participation of married women.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation
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Citations in the corpus
- The effect of Beijing’s driving restrictions on pollution and economic activity (2015, background): “Black, Kolesnikova, and Taylor (2010) find that female labor force participation rates are lower in cities with longer commute times consistent with women as the primary margin of labor supply adjustments.”
- Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment (2011, methodology): “Our results on average commuti ng time in the county or MSA are similar to those of Black et al. (2007) – a 10 min increase in the average commuting time reduces the probability of work by 0.”