This paper analyzes to what extent the rise in women's labor force participation has led to 'flocking together', i.e. whether women with high labor income tend to be married to men with high labor income, or vice versa. Based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient and a related index...

The standard methods of measuring the cost of children are flawed because of the endogeneity of fertility decisions and because - even if they were exogenous - children bring (or may bring) utility to the household. This paper presents a simple structural model of household allocation of time...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <p>The percentage of part-time workers in Italy is very low compared with most European countries. In this paper we try to contribute to an explanation. We use data on the employees of a large Italian company operating in the service sector, and apply a particular...</p>