%0 Report
        %A Furtado, Delia
%A Hock, Heinrich
        %T Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3506
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3506
        %X 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.
        %K immigration
%K labor supply
%K fertility