Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities

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• 作者：Dan A. Black ; Natalia Kolesnikova ; Lowell J. Taylor
• 关键词：J21 ; J22 ; R23 ; R41
• 刊名：Journal of Urban Economics
• 出版年：January, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：79
• 期：Complete
• 页码：59-71
• 全文大小：506 K

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This paper documents a little-noticed feature of US labor markets鈥攙ery large variation in the labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on cross-city differences in commuting times as a potential explanation for this variation. We start with a model in which commuting times introduce non-convexities into the budget set. Empirical evidence is consistent with the model鈥檚 predictions: Labor force participation rates of married women are negatively correlated with the metropolitan area commuting time. Also, metropolitan areas with larger increases in average commuting time in 1980-2000 had slower growth in the labor force participation of married women.