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relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to …
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to husbands’ wages and other family income. Now that the rapid rise in married women’s participation has slowed and even … through 2006, we find that the decline in responsiveness to husbands’ wages has come to an endat least for the time beingand … even find evidence of rising responsiveness to husbands’ wages. This increase in the cross-wage elasticity of participation …
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We designed and fielded an experimental module in the American Life Panel (ALP) where we ask individuals to report the number of their purchases and the amount paid by debit cards, cash, credit cards, and personal checks. The design of the experiment features several stages of randomization....
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inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete. …
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Defined benefit (DB) pensions and Social Security are two important resources for financing retirement in the United States. However, these illiquid, non-market forms of wealth are typically excluded from measures of net worth. To the extent that these broadly held resources substitute for...
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Importing foreign nurses has been used as a strategy to ease nursing shortages in the United States. The effectiveness of this policy critically depends on the long-run response of native-born nurses. We examine how the immigration of foreign-born registered nurses (RNs) affects the occupational...
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