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Women's earning power and the "double burden" of market and household work
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2007
should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628813
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Women's Earning Power and the 'Double Burden' of Market and Household Work
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2008
should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220112
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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters : levels and trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675517
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan Among Sons and Daughters : Levels and Trends
Lefranc, Arnaud - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096460
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Chapter 29. Intergenerational Mobility in the Labor Market
Solon, Gary - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part A, (pp. 1761-1800). 1999
This chapter summarizes what has been learned from recent research on intergenerational transmission of earnings status. The chapter begins by using a simple theoretical model to highlight several key concepts. Then it reviews (and discusses the connections among) three related empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024725
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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319577
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Income, wealth and earnings inequality in Australia : evidence from the HILDA survey
Sila, Urban; Dugain, Valéry - 2019
This paper analyses income, wealth and earnings inequality in Australia, using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey as the primary source of data. Income inequality in Australia has risen in the last two decades, but most of the rise occurred prior to the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998478
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What Role Does Marriage Play in Urban Africa? Evidence from a High HIV Area in Kenya
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
the link between marriage and sexual activity on a sample of migrants in the town of Kisumu, Western Kenya, which reported … remittances among the migrants (after instrumenting), consistent with the view that marriage improves labor market outcomes and …The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081757
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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419016
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Household interaction and the labor supply of married women
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2012
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679814