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The Effect of Marital Stability on the Labor Supply Response to Changes in Wage Rates and Taxes

Zhang, Yonghui - 2014

impact of marriage. I find clear evidence that the elasticity of labor supply with respect to wages and taxes is affected by … marriage decisions. The empirical results show that males who are continuously married to the same wife have a lower average …

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Beyond Inequality Accounting : Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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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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Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples

Hofmarcher, Thomas; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021

We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...

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Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply Behaviour of Married Kyrgyz Women

Arabsheibani, Reza; Kudebayeva, Alma; Mussurov, Altay - 2021

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use these predictions to estimate the participation...

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Spousal Labor Supply, Caregiving, and the Value of Disability Insurance

Lee, Siha - 2020

For married couples, spousal labor supply can act as a household insurance mechanism against one spouse's earnings shock. This paper evaluates the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program among married households when wives face a time allocation problem between...

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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India

Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...

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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe

Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012

. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … study the impact of two mechanisms on labor supply: (i) differences in marriage stability and (ii) differences in tax … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …

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Taxation of Couples

Apps, Patricia F.; Rees, Ray - 2021

This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed around couples, and so it could be argued that empirically, this is the single most important...

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Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women : 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …

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