Search Results - subject:"Household formation"

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The relationship between our general equilibrium model with multimember households and club models with multiple private goods is investigated. The main distinction in the definitions consists of the equilibrium concepts. As a rule, competitive equilibria among households where no group of...

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When inefficiency begets efficiency

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - In: Economic Theory 25 (2005) 1, pp. 105-121

Collective consumption decisions taken by the members of a household may prove inefficient. The impact on market performance depends on whether household inefficiencies are caused by inefficient net trades with the market or by inefficient distribution of resources within households. Inefficient...

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Family ties and labor supply

Díaz, Antonia; Guilló, M. Dolores - In: Investigaciones Economicas 29 (2005) 2, pp. 289-329

We develop a theoretical model of the household where family ties impose a distortion on the job search incentives of unemployed members and on the young adults’ decision of leaving the parental house. We find that the search efforts of unemployed family members are strategic substitutes, the...

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The decisions of Spanish youth: A cross-section study

Martínez-Granado, Maite; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 2, pp. 305-330

understand the dynamics of household formation. Our results also confirm a number of plausible intuitions about the effect of …

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Group living decisions as youths transition to adulthood

Haurin, Donald R.; Haurin, R. Jean; Garasky, Steven - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 2, pp. 329-349

This study follows teens through young adulthood as they transition to independent living. We focus on a little studied issue: why some youths live in groups rather than alone or with parents. This choice is important because the size of the group has a substantial impact on the demand for...

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Formación de hogar y situación en el mercado laboral: un análisis para los jóvenes adultos en España

ANDRÉS, COLOM; C, Mª; MARTÍNEZ VERDÚ, R.; MOLÉS … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 18 (2001) Agosto, pp. 105-128

that both the household formation and labour participation are decided jointly by young people. The purpose of this study …

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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources … members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some …

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'I Vont To Be Alone' Transitions to Independent Living, Marriage and Divorce Among Young Americans

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We investigate the importance of economic factors in young Americans’ decisions to form and dissolve households. We adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in...

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Impacts of Policy Actions on the Family and Household

Ermisch, John F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

This paper discusses the impacts of a range of economic and social policies on family and household formation and … changes there in the past fifteen years which have affected marriage, fertility, divorce and household formation. During the … childbearing and the patterns of household formation by "marginal" groups such as the young and the elderly. Attempts have been …

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