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Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Juhn, Chinhui - 1996
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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How Much Consumption Insurance in Bewley Models with Endogenous Family Labor Supply?
Wu, Chunzan - 2018
We show that a calibrated life-cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and Saporta-Eksten (2016) in U.S. data. With additively...
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Family Labor Supply With Taxes
Hausman, Jerry A. - 1984
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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Worker Displacement and the Added Worker Effect
Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2001
This paper examines the effect of a husband's job loss on the labor supply of his wife, an effect known as the 'added worker' effect. Unlike past added worker effect studies which focus on the effect of the husband's current unemployment status, this paper analyzes the wife's labor supply...
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Wage and Employment Uncertainty and the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Married Women
Blau, Francine D. - 1989
Over the past 30 years, research on married women's labor force participation has concluded virtually without exception that the principal source of labor force participation rate growth for married women has been the concurrent growth of women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's...
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
Bertrand, Marianne - 2013
We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage...
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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin S. - 2017
assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
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Heterogeneous Paths of Industrialization
Huneeus, Federico - 2020
Industrialization experiences differ significantly across countries. We use a bench-mark model of structural change to shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our analysis leads to three key findings. First, benchmark...
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Bond Markets as Conduits for Capital Flows : How Does Asia Compare?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2006
of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …, and greater transparency that lead to larger and better developed financial systems in Asia, something that is conducive …
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Closed Jaguar, Open Dragon : Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and Asia before World War II
Clemens, Michael A. - 2002
Despite an enormous literature that has analyzed the comparative experiences of Latin America and Asia in post … highest tariff barriers on earth before 1914; Asia had the lowest. Protected Latin America's belle ‚poque also boasted some of … the most explosive growth performance on earth, while Asia registered some of the worst. What brought the two regions to …
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