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Estimating labor-supply elasticities with joint borrowing constraints of couples

Bredemeier, Christian; Gravert, Jan; Jüßen, Falko - 2016

Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...

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Accounting for limited commitment between spouses when estimating labor-supply elasticities

Bredemeier, Christian; Gravert, Jan Hendrik; Jüßen, Falko - 2021

for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at … the household level. We show that proxying individual consumption by household consumption biases estimated Frisch … elasticities downward as limited commitment in the household induces individual consumption to behave differently from household …

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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020

We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...

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Household decisions and the gender gap in job satisfaction

Bredemeier, Christian; Ndlovu, Patrick; Vujić, Sunčica; … - 2024

align with those of men. We develop this explanation within a theoretical model of collective household decision-making that …

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