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During the last decades, important policies have been implemented to incorporate women into the labor market and reduce … hypothetic scenarios: a proxy to childcare availability policy and an increase in women’s relative wages. We found that … allocated to housework and paid work. Moreover, we found that increasing women’s bargaining power in wage terms could produce …
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of cross-industry concentration, the channels of substitution between men and women, and heterogeneity by marital status. …
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We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be created. In a static version where capital is fixed and...
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We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
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This paper presents an economic model of prostitution that differs from the existing literature in that it makes no restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and applies the same behavioural hypotheses to both. Our...
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In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities … human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … rank in the distribution of income. In the "Sex and the City" (SATC) type, women marry men who are better ranked than …
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We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
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This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear income tax systems for families based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between the wage rates of mothers as "second earners" and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants...
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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities … human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … rank in the distribution of income. In the "Sex and the City" (SATC) type, women marry men who are better ranked than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155540