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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses …
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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018
Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911204
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Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor : Evidence from Danish Couples
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2011
If income pooling indicates primary earners' willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131424
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Drivers of Participation Elasticities Across Europe : Gender or Earner Role within the Household?
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax-benefit systems largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation elasticities using an IV Group estimator that enables us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925514
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Female Breadwinner Families : Their Existence, Persistence and Sources
Drago, Robert W.; Black, David; Wooden, Mark - 2021
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner - what we term female breadwinner households - and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319044
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Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women
Eckstein, Zvi - 2012
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096154
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia F. - 2012
This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099748
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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China
Li, Hongbin - 2015
endogeneity problem, we use a unique survey on households with twin children and a comparison group of non-twin households. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015013
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Dynamic Female Labor Supply
Eckstein, Zvi - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154973
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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply
Kim, Jungho - 2007
While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778435