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Income pooling and household division of labor: Evidence from Danish couples
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bonke, Jens; Grossbard, Shoshana - 2010
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/10010278383
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Risk and saving in two-person households: More scope for precautionary saving
Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - 2012
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287608
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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving
Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812036
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Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor: Evidence from Danish Couples
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bonke, Jens; Grossbard, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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/10008805623
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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013
underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is … hours, both upward and downward than are employees. A new index of underemployment is used to show that for the UK, since … the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319410
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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N.F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is … hours, both upward and downward than are employees. A new index of underemployment is used to show that for the UK, since … the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686908
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Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?
Usui, Emiko; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oshio, Takashi - 2015
We investigate how Japanese men aged 60-74 adjust their workforce attachment after beginning to receive a public pension. Men who were employees at age 54 gradually move to part-time work or retire after beginning to receive pension benefits; those who continue working are more likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451208
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Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms
Labanca, Claudio; Pozzoli, Dario - 2022
Although constraints on hours worked at the firm-level are viewed as an important determinant of firm wages, little direct evidence exists to support this view. In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data on hours worked in Denmark to measure hours constraints and to investigate how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882568
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Work hours constraints and health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
that overemployment - working more hours than desired - has negative effects on different measures of self-perceived health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282274
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David N.F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
that “overemployment” – working more hours than desired – has negative effects on different measures of self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371916