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Efficient Labor Supply for Latin Families : Is the Intra-Household Bargaining Power Relevant?
Campaña, Juan - 2018
the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …
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Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households : evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-25
We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...
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Intra-household wealth and welfare inequality in the US : estimations from a collective model of labor supply
Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892483
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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The dynamics of women’s labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952941
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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144690
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Labor market opportunities and women's decision making power within households
Majlesi, Kaveh - In: Journal of development economics 119 (2016), pp. 34-47
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637245
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Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US : Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply
Molina, Jose Alberto - 2018
This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912744
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Labor market transitions of members of opposite-sex couples: nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2021
transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … analysis, and household specific unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Results show that female transitions into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607755
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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012
. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of … measured from a representative household model partly reflects inaccurate household aggregation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613921