TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yamada,Tadashi
AU  - Yamada,Tetsuji
AU  - Chaloupka,Frank
TI  - A Multinominal Logistic Approach to the Labor Force Behavior of JapaneseMarried Women
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1783
PY  - 1985
Y2  - December 1985
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1783
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1783.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Tadashi Yamada

Tetsuji Yamada
Rutgers University
E-Mail: ytetsuji@aol.com

Frank J. Chaloupka, IV
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Economics (m/c 144)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
601 S. Morgan Street, Room 713
Chicago, IL  60607-7121
Tel: 312/413-2287
Fax: 312/996-3344;630/801-8870
E-Mail: fjc@uic.edu
AB  - Using a multanornial logistic approach, we analyze the inter-dependencies among the labor force participation decisions of married women an 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 particicipation of Japanese married women is substantially more elastic than 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.
ER  -