In this paper we analyze the relationship between the income sources of custodial divorced parents and their expenditure patterns. We use data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to directly investigate the issue of whether or not divorced mothers receiving child support income spend larger...

Analysts studying the unemployment experiences of population members often have access to data collected from a sample of individuals at a point in time which contain the length of the ongoing spell of unemployment for sample members currently unemployed. No information regarding the lengths of...

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In this research we estimate a neoclassical household labor supply model for married individuals, incorporating the main elements of the tax system, using Italian microdata. We found that while the labor supply of women is rather elastic with respect to wages and income variation, men's labor...