TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Furtado, Delia
AU  - Hock, Heinrich
        TI  - Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States
        PY  - 2008/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3506
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3506
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - immigration
KW  - labor supply
KW  - fertility
        ER  -