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by Tadashi Yamada Tetsuji Yamada Frank Chaloupka National
Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Using a multinominal logistic
approach, we analyze the interdependencies among the labor force participation
decisions of married women in Japan. These decisions are working part-time,
working full-time, being unemployed (in the labor market but unable to
find work), and not participating. Our focus is on the interdependency
between the decision to work part-time and the decision to work full-time.
Our results indicate that married women working full-time view part-time
work as a good substitute, but the reverse is not observed. We also obtain
estimates of the own-wage elasticity for both forms of participation and
find that part-time labor force participation of Japanese married women
is substantially more elastic that that of their full-time counterparts.
These findings reinforce the view that married women in Japan with loose
ties to the labor market are quite responsive to changes in the returns
to work.
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