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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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Almås, Ingvild; Kotsadam, Andreas; Moen, Espen R.; … - 2019

Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...

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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households

Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018

Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...

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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides

Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018 - This version: October 17, 2018

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a … gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss and, in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a … more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the …

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018

small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most … explanation for the limited scope of intra-household insurance. …

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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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Educated Couples’ Location Choice and Intra-Household Bargaining

Forouzandeh, Ramin - 2023

diminishes with age. I examine several hypotheses for this phenomenon, among which the division of labor within the household is …

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Heterogeneous couples, household interactions and labor supply elasticities of married women

Kaya, Ezgi - 2014

educational attainments of husbands and wives) and explicitly modeling how household members interact and make labor supply … to study how changes in educational attainments and household structure affect aggregate labor supply elasticities. …

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How does pension eligibility affect labor supply in couples?

Lalive, Rafael; Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2016

Many OECD countries are reforming their pension systems. We investigate how pension eligibility affects labor supply in couples. Inspired by a theoretical framework, we measure how the sharp change in the pension eligibility of both partners affects labor force participation. We find that both...

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