@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp3506, author={Furtado, Delia and Hock, Heinrich}, title={Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States}, year={2008}, month={May}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={3506}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3506}, abstract={The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and childrearing facing American women. The evidence we present indicates that low-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of college graduate native females. Although childbearing is generally associated with temporary exit from the labor force, immigrant-led declines in the price of child-care has reduced the extent of role incompatibility between fertility and work.}, keywords={immigration;labor supply;fertility}, }