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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men / David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Autor, David.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23173.
- NBER working paper series no. w23173
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- When Work Disappears
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and earnings, raise the prevalence of idleness, and elevate premature mortality among young males. Consistent with Becker's model of household specialization, shocks to male relative stature reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with sociological accounts, these shocks raise the share of mothers who are unwed and share of children living in below-poverty, single-headed households.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2017.
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