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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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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?
Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020
by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly …", i.e. convenient for combining career and household activities, and increase female labor participation. The policy …
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898835
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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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Aggregation with two-member households and home production
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2016
This note explores the problem of family labor supply decision in an economy with two-member households, joint home production, and fixed cost of joint labor supply. Even though the labor supply decisions are not indivisible per se, the presence of such fixed cost and partners with unequal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011498639
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Aggregation with two-member households and home production
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2017
This note explores the problem of family labor supply decision in an economy with two-member households, joint home production, and fixed cost of joint labor supply. Even though the labor supply decisions are not indivisible per se, the presence of such fixed cost and partners with unequal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659963
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Does the added worker effect matter?
Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliya; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau - 2020
The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162848
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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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Child Labor, Home Production and the Family Labor Supply
García, Luis - 2014
distribute their time between market work and household work, and the children may work in the labor market, do the household … of household members. Since empirical papers cannot find a clear relationship between child labor, wages and exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751337