Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chen, Xi
• Ge, Suqin

Titel

Social norms and female labor force participation in urban China

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018-12, Vol.46 (4), p.966-987

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Social norms significantly affect female labor force participation in urban China.•Men raised by non-working mothers have more traditional gender role attitudes.•Men raised by non-working mothers are less productive in housework.•Married women with non-working mothers-in-law are less likely to participate. This study investigates the impact of social norms on the labor supply decision of married women in urban China. Our estimation results indicate that men raised by non-working mothers are more likely to support traditional gender roles, are more averse to having working wives, and tend to be less productive or less willing to engage in housework than other men. Consequently, the labor force participation rate of married women with non-working mothers-in-law is 5–18 percentage points lower than that of married women with working mothers-in-law in urban China.