lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms … of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development … household type is becoming more prevalent: the one in which the woman is the sole or main wage-earner, the so-called "female …

by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment … social assistance increases aggregate welfare. Income pooling in married households decreases the welfare value of social …

-cycle insurance impact is much smaller. At the mean, a positive hours shock of one standard deviation raises life-time income by 10 …

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income … British Household Survey. …

distribution of the share of income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop to the right of the half, where the wife’s income … exceeds the husband’s income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …

-time work - 7% on average - full-time workers expect no effect on current wages when switching to part-time, on average …