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Family Labor Supply with Taxes
Hausman, Jerry A.; Ruud, Paul A. - 2021
Over the period 1960 - 1983 the proportion of federal tax revenue raised by taxation of labor supply has risen from 57-77 percent. In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of family labor supply which treats both federal and state taxation. Husbands and wives labor supply are treated...
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Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Juhn, Chinhui; Murphy, Kevin M. - 2021
Using data from the March CPS and the 1960 Census, this paper describes earnings and employment changes for married couples in different types of households stratified by the husband's hourly wage. While the declines in male employment and earnings have been greatest for low wage men, employment...
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Household vs. Personal Accounts of the U.S. Labor Market, 1965-2000
Mulligan, Casey B.; Rubinstein, Yona - 2021
that motivated the study. As a middle ground, we construct household-based measures of labor supply by within-household … aggregating answers to the usual weeks and hours worked questionnaire items. Household (H) measures are substantially different …
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
Bertrand, Marianne - 2013
production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests …
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2013
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing … household level. The results indicate that transferring ownership rights to men increased household consumption of some male …-favored goods and women's time spent on chores. Transferring ownership rights to women decreased household consumption of some male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076182
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Women's Emancipation Through Education : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Guvenen, Fatih - 2013
/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083087
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Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks
Fadlon, Itzik - 2015
This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in …
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The Effects of Child-Bearing on Married Women'S Labor Supply and Earnings : Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment
Gangadharan, Jaisri; Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Jacobson, Joyce - 2021
Married women's decisions about child-bearing and market work are importantly interrelated. Although there are many estimates of the effects of fertility on female labor supply few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity inherent in these choices. In this paper, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224683
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Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply
Chai, Jingjing - 2011
the rest of the economy via high unemployment and reduced labor earnings, which reduced household contributions to Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123696
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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
Blundell, Richard W. - 2017
We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943615