Education and marriage decisions of japanese women and the role of the equal employment opportunity act

The Japanese Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) of 1985 aimed to reduce gender discrimination in the labor market, especially for career-oriented jobs. This paper investigates whether this act had an unanticipated effect on women’s marriage decisions. Using micro data from the Japanese Panel Su...

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Main Authors: Edwards, L.N (Author), Hasebe, T. (Author), Sakai, T. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2019
Online Access:View Fulltext in Publisher
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520 3 |a The Japanese Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) of 1985 aimed to reduce gender discrimination in the labor market, especially for career-oriented jobs. This paper investigates whether this act had an unanticipated effect on women’s marriage decisions. Using micro data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, we model women’s interrelated decisions on university education and whether to marry, focusing on whether women have married by age 32. Our results show a negative relationship between university education and marriage that is much greater for post-EEOA cohorts of women than for pre-EEOA cohorts, consistent with our hypothesis that the enhanced career opportunities associated with the EEOA stimulated women to delay or forgo marriage. © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 
700 1 |a Edwards, L.N.  |e author 
700 1 |a Hasebe, T.  |e author 
700 1 |a Sakai, T.  |e author 
773 |t Journal of Human Capital