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Commitment and the dynamics of household labor supply

Theloudis, Alexandros; Velilla, Jorge; Chiappori, … - 2022

The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of commitment: full, limited, and no commitment. We propose...

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Commuting, wages, and household behavior

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2024

of couples' commuting, wages, labor supply, and consumption. Using data from the PSID for the years 2011-2019, results … indicate a positive and highly significant correlation between wages and commuting when analyzed cross-sectionally. However …, changes in wages and commuting over an individual's life cycle are not related. Additionally, commuting appears to be …

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Employment, hours of work and the optimal taxation of low income families

Blundell, Richard W.; Shephard, Andrew - 2011

The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and transfer system. The analysis considers purely Pareto improving...

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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

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Job Changes and Hours Changes : Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Blundell, Richard W. - 2007

reforms on wages …

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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

Blundell, Richard W. - 2018

, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to …

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Two decades of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Belfield, Chris; Blundell, Richard W.; Cribb, Jonathan; … - 2017

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively "inclusive" growth from 1997-2004 and the Great Recession. We focus on the middle 90%, where trends have contrasted strongly with the "new inequality" at the very top. Household...

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Intensive mothering and well-being : the role of education and child care activity

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2016

The ideology of intensive mothering, whereby mother's time is thought of as crucial for child development, continues to be the dominant cultural framework in the United States. Yet there is little evidence about how mothers differ in their child care experiences from large representative...

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Collective labour supply: heterogeneity and nonparticipation

Blundell, Richard W.; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Magnac, … - 2005

not. The estimates of the sharing rule show that wages have a strong influence on bargaining power within couples. …

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Consumption inequality and family labor supply

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2012

and find strong evidence of smoothing of male's and female's permanent shocks to wages. Once family labor supply, assets …

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