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Previous studies of female labor force participation in Japan often show that the estimates of female wage rates are "negative" in their single-equation models of labor supply. Based on the common belief that the substitution effect dominates the income effect for female labor supply, to...
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-77 percent. In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of family labor supply which treats both federal and state taxation … family labor supply decision. Joint family efforts are found to be important. The efficiency cost (deadweight loss) of labor …
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and how does it compare with the family's money in-come? How does the value of home production differ among families with … children? How does it changeover the family's life cycle? …
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This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …- versus family choice as a major determinant of trade adjustment costs. While older workers respond to the shock rather …
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Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship between the two should be better understood. Causality...
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In this paper we analyze income tax design in a two member household labor supply model where time spent on consumption together by the two household members is valued differently from time spent apart. We treat consumption as a non excludable public good to members of the household; one example...
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The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties … using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that … children need to have for their parents for over 70 countries. We show that strong family ties imply more reliance on the …
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wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …
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Labor economists and policy makers have long been interested in work-family interactions. Work generates income but …
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would only make up a small share of the associated reduction in family income. We also find evidence that families are …
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