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This paper presents an investigation of two mechanisms of household labor supply: comparative advantage and social norms related to gender roles in China and Japan. Households make labor distribution ...decisions according to comparative advantage theory. Decisions based on such rational will be distorted for people who have an aversion to violating social norms when a wife earns more than her husband. Results demonstrate that Japanese women avoid the labor market when they might potentially out-earn the husband, although Chinese women exhibit less conformity to that social norm. However, husbands in both countries in the same situation will make the opposite decision. They tend to even be more engaged in the labor market than is normally the case, which presents evidence that social norms also distort husbandsʼ labor choices. Furthermore, this paper explains that under the same situation of their wives potentially earning more, the Japanese wives tend to offer fewer working hours than Chinese wives.続きを見る
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