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Wo(men) at work? : the impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours

Triebe, Doreen - 2013

This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...

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Why are married men working so much? : relative wages, labor supply and the decline of marriage

Knowles, John - 2012

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Wo(men) at Work? The Impact of Cohabiting and Married Partners' Earnings on Women's Work Hours

Triebe, Doreen - 2014

This study investigates the determinants of women’s labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner’s wages on women’s work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150044

The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021

Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....

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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes

Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021

We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...

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Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 9, pp. 1-30

Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from …, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive … association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and …

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Cyclicality of Hours Worked by Married Women and Spousal Insurance

Ellieroth, Kathrin - 2017

I document that married women's hours worked are significantly less cyclical than hours worked by married men and singles and argue that spousal insurance contributes to the low cyclicality. Analyzing volatility, transition rates, and household behavior, I show that (i) married women experience...

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Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work : More Evidence that Marriage Markets Matter

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2017

Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …

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Body-weight and women's hours of work : more evidence that marriage markets matter

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2017

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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...

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