Re-Thinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women into Geographically-Dispersed Occupations, 1980-2010

Benson, Alan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1925913

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“…Compton and Pollak (2007 , Table 4, column F) use a measure of the concentration of an occupation in large metropolitan areas and find that urban concentration of husband's occupation has a positive effect on family migration whereas urban concentration of wife's occupation has no effect on family migration. 23 Benson (2014), to the contrary, shows that family migration is symmetrically increasing in the geographical clustering of the occupations of husband and wife.…”

Section: Educational Earnings Potentialmentioning

confidence: 96%

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Foged

2016

Labour Economics

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Section: Educational Earnings Potentialmentioning

confidence: 96%

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Foged

2016

Labour Economics

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“…A number of studies have also found that women have a higher value of time than men, despite their lower wages, and that this may be due to their larger domestic responsibilities, and in particular their role in childcare (Turner and Niemeier, 1997;Rouwendal, 1999;Sermons and Koppelman, 2001;Brownstone and Small, 2005). Finally, a number of authors have argued that women are more likely to work in lower-status service sector occupations, and these are less geographically concentrated than traditional male jobs, thus increasing women's chances of finding employment closer to home (Hanson and Johnston, 1985;Gordon et al, 1989;MacDonald, 1999;Benson, 2014). Furthermore, Hansen and Pratt (1995) find that employers' localized recruitment strategies reinforce the patterns of shorter female commutes.…”

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Intra-household commuting choices and local labour markets

Roberts

Taylor

2016

Oxf. Econ. Pap.

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Commuting is the conduit between two markets: labour and housing. While the job search literature recognizes the importance of the spatial distribution of employment, local labour market conditions have been a notable omission from the commuting literature. In the first study of its kind, we introduce local labour market conditions into a model of spouses' commuting behaviour in the UK. We find male commute times are more sensitive to local unemployment rates than women's, although both effects are inelastic, and are of a similar magnitude to that of labour income. The more conducive the local labour market is to female employment opportunities, the less time women spend commuting. Local unemployment rates have heterogeneous effects on commuting, e.g. arising from mode of transport, job change, and homeownership. Furthermore, housing market rigidities lead to longer commuting times and thus increase the social costs that a more flexible housing market could alleviate.JEL classifications: D19, J24, R40.

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“…Geographic considerations may impact women's job choices, even prior to marriage and motherhood. Benson (2014) shows that anticipation of a lesser ability to determine the geographic location of the family may lead women to select occupations in which they can later secure a position in a wide swath of geographic areas (e.g. physicians and accountants) rather than choosing occupations that tend to have more geographically limited opportunities (e.g., research scientists) 23 .…”

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Women, Work, and Family

Blau¹,

Winkler²

2017

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Press (forthcoming). The authors thank Andrew Tipping for his careful research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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Re-Thinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women into Geographically-Dispersed Occupations, 1980-2010

Cited by 14 publications

References 45 publications

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Intra-household commuting choices and local labour markets

Women, Work, and Family

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