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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 …
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Economic growth with heterogeneous households, gender division of labor, and elastic labor supply
Zhang, Wei-Bin - In: Journal of income distribution : an international quarterly 21 (2012) 2, pp. 15-37
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Household asset wealth and female labor supply in MENA
AlAzzawi, Shireen; Hlásny, Vladimír - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 73 (2019), pp. 3-13
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Understanding retirement in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan - 2023
This report is designed to provide new evidence on retirement patterns in the UK, as part of the Pensions Review, a larger project run by the IFS in partnership with the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, which is examining the future of financial security in retirement. Understanding patterns of...
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Wealth distribution within couples and financial decision making
Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013
has the last word in financial decisions. -- wealth gap ; wealth inequality ; intra-household allocation ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707605
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Structural adjustment and family labour supply in Latin America
Lam, David - In: Demographic responses to economic adjustment in Latin …, (pp. 201-228). 1997
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The Economics of Hypergamy
Almås, Ingvild - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870296
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The Urbanization-Household Gender Inequality Nexus : Evidence from Time Allocation in China
de Bruin, Anne - 2019
Urbanization and accompanying socio-economic change, alter intra-household behaviours including paid and unpaid work … household division of labour. Using 24-hour time module data from the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate time allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871170
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The Impact of Alternative Imputation Methods on the Measurement of Income and Wealth : Evidence from the Spanish Survey of Household Finances
Barcelo, Cristina - 2009
of empirical studies. Using the 2002 wave of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF), I study the performance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012719940
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Life expectancy, labor supply, and long-run growth : reconciling theory and evidence
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012
We set up a simple overlapping generation model that allows us to distinguish between life expectancy and active life expectancy. We show that individuals optimally adjust to a longer active life by educating more and, if the labor supply elasticity is high enough, by supplying less labor. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009619090