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Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2015
An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over multi-dimensional characteristics. Importantly, the model suggests specific testable assumptions that allow researchers to uncover marginal rates of substitution (MRS) between...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples : Are Italian Men Irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - 2021
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128221
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Female Labour Supply and Spousal Education
Papps, Kerry L. - 2010
are positively related to spousal education at the time of marriage but also fall more rapidly over time after marriage … marriage when the husband is highly educated. Overall, the results provide evidence consistent with both marital sorting on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135374
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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
Bredemeier, Christian - 2010
This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119020
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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian - 2012
In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses
Schøne, Pål - 2020
We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction industry, and their wives. We use license requirements to divide workers into two groups who are more...
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The Effects of Marriage on Couples' Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777458
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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples
Papps, Kerry L. - 2006
should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …
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