Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/10351
Title: The effect of fertility on female labor supply in a labor market with extensive informality
Authors: Tümen, Semih
Turan, Belgi
Keywords: Fertility
Labor supply
Twin births
Informal employment
Job search
Instrumental variables
Child-Care Subsidies
Family-Size
Economic Consequences
Force Participation
Exogenous Variation
Womens Employment
Twin Births
Contacts
Mothers
Quality
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Gmbh & Co
Abstract: This paper presents new evidence on the causal link between fertility and female labor supply by focusing on how informal employment interacts with maternal labor supply. We employ an IV strategy based on an unused data source for twin births in Turkey|a large middle-income country with extensive labor informality. We find that, following the first birth, female labor supply declines significantly and mothers who drop out of labor force are mostly the informally employed ones. This is contrary to the perception that informal jobs might be easier to sustain during motherhood as they are more flexible. Following further increases in family size, formally employed mothers start dropping out of labor force and their hours of work also decline. Higher fertility also leads to lower wages and lower job search intensity among mothers. We document substantial differences between maternal versus paternal labor supply in response to changes in family size. Unlike mothers, fathers increase their labor supply, which mostly comes from elevated informal employment|possibly due to a decline in their reservation wages. As a result, wages decline, hours of work increase, and job search activity shifts from formal to informal search methods for fathers. These results suggest that higher fertility might be associated with increased vulnerabilities and high labor income risks in countries with pervasive labor informality. Our estimates are robust to using alternative IV specifications based on gender composition of siblings.
Description: Article; Early Access
URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-023-02399-6
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/10351
ISSN: 0377-7332
1435-8921
Appears in Collections:Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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