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the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions. …
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population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …
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social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …
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This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …
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This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor … supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census …
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We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...
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perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household … less per day on household work, regardless their sexual orientation. We therefore conclude that, from a comparative …
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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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, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using …
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Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...
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