TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hakobyan,Shushanik
AU  - McLaren,John
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - NAFTA and the Wages of Married Women
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - March 2018; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages, focusing on differences by gender. We find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much larger than the effect for other demographic groups. We investigate several possible explanations for this finding. It is not explained by differential sensitivity of female-dominated occupations to trade shocks, or by household bargaining that makes married women workers less able to change their industry of employment than other workers. We find some support for an explanation based on an equilibrium theory of selective non-participation in the labor market, whereby some of the higher-wage married women workers in their industry drop out of the labor market in response to their industry's loss of tariff. However, this does not fully explain the findings so we are left with a puzzle
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24424
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24424
ER  -