TY - JOUR
T1 - The rise of low-skill service employment
T2 - The role of dual-earner households
AU - Lee, Jongkwan
AU - Shim, Myungkyu
AU - Yang, Hee Seung
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the associate editor and two anonymous referees for their valuable comments. We would like to thank Matthew Notowidigdo, Vasco Yasenov, seminar and conference participants at Yonsei University, Sogang University, 2018 Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Conference, and 2019 Meeting of the Urban Economics Association. Shim and Yang acknowledge the financial support from Yonsei University (Yonsei Signature Research Cluster Program of 2021-22-0011 and Yonsei Research Grant of 2020-22-0386, respectively).
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the associate editor and two anonymous referees for their valuable comments. We would like to thank Matthew Notowidigdo, Vasco Yasenov, seminar and conference participants at Yonsei University, Sogang University, 2018 Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Conference, and 2019 Meeting of the Urban Economics Association. Shim and Yang acknowledge the financial support from Yonsei University (Yonsei Signature Research Cluster Program of 2021-22-0011 and Yonsei Research Grant of 2020-22-0386, respectively).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - This paper unveils an important but unexplored channel for the growth of low-skill service employment between 1960 and 2010: the spillover from dual-earner households. In particular, we analyze the cross-city association between variation in dual-earner households and employment growth in home production substitutes. To address concerns about endogeneity, we use the fact that married working women were extremely concentrated on administrative support occupations, while their birth places were heterogeneously distributed. Our results show that one more dual-earner couple creates 0.3 low-skill service jobs in local economies, and the effect mainly comes from the home production service sector.
AB - This paper unveils an important but unexplored channel for the growth of low-skill service employment between 1960 and 2010: the spillover from dual-earner households. In particular, we analyze the cross-city association between variation in dual-earner households and employment growth in home production substitutes. To address concerns about endogeneity, we use the fact that married working women were extremely concentrated on administrative support occupations, while their birth places were heterogeneously distributed. Our results show that one more dual-earner couple creates 0.3 low-skill service jobs in local economies, and the effect mainly comes from the home production service sector.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.08.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.08.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136520957
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 202
SP - 255
EP - 273
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ER -