In this study, the effect of China’s family structure on the labor supply (economic activity participation and working hours) of married women in China is analyzed using 2015 China Health and Nutrition Survey(CHNS). In defining the family structure, the parents of married women and the parents of their husbands were distinguished separately. It is also different from previous research that the Instrumental variable method is used to take into account the endogeneity of the family structure. Those are main results. First, the effect of the family structure on the participation of married women in economic activities was found to be that the more women who live in the same home as their parents, the higher the participation of married women in economic activities. In particular, the participation in economic activities was higher when living with the mother of woman rather than the mother of her husband. Numerically, for married women who lived with their mothers, economic participation was 99 percent higher than for married women who did not. Second, regarding married women’s working hours, it was found that marri ed women’s working hours increased significantly when they lived in the same living area or nearby areas, rather than when they lived in the same home. These results suggest that one of the reasons for the continued decline in women’s participation in economic activities in China since 2000 may have been linked to nuclear familyization. The analysis of the time series data of CHNS also supports this prediction, which shows that the proportion of non-parent households in China increased from 47.9 percent in 2000 to 61.5 percent in 2011. Therefore, in order to attract women to participate in economic activities, it can be considered how to subsidize housing purchases if they live with parents’ generation or live in a nearby area.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Model 4. Data and Variable Definition 4.1 Data 4.2 Variable Definition 5. Empirical Analysis 5.1 The Effect of Family Structure on Married Women’s Labor Force Participation 5.2 The Effect of Family Structure on Married Women’s Average Daily Working Hours 5.3 A Change in Family Structure 6. Conclusions Reference
키워드
Married WomenLabor SupplyFamily StructureInstrumental Variable ApproachEndogeneity
저자
Yani Cao [ Department of Economics, Chonnam National University, Korea ]
Chanyoung Lee [ Department of Economi cs, Chonnam National University, Korea ]
Corresponding Author
부산대학교 중국전략연구소(구 부산대학교 중국연구소) [Institute of China Strategy]
설립연도
2006
분야
사회과학>사회복지학
소개
본 연구소의 설립을 통해 우선 한중 양국 국민의 상호이해와 교류증진을 위한 인문, 사회과학적인 연구는 물론이고, 이를 통해 기업(인)이 중국에 안정적인 정착과 교류를 할 수 있는 각종 환경을 조성하고자 한다.
게다가 본 연구소는 기존의 연구소의 기능과는 달리 단순한 학술 교류에 머물지 않고 인적 교류를 통해 양국관계의 이해를 증진하고 나아가 한국과 중국의 각종 프로젝트를 적극 유치, 개발함으로써 지속적으로 재원의 창출을 도모하고자 한다.