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Collective female labour supply : theory and application

Donni, Olivier (contributor) - 2005

In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband's labour supply is generally fixed at full-time. We then show that, in this case, structural elements of the decision process, such as...

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Economic analyses of families : existing research findings

Johnson, David Thomas; Kalb, Guyonne - 2002

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The productivity gains of marriage : the effects of spousal education on own productivity

Tiefenthaler, Jill M. - 1993

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The collective household model with competing pre-marital investments

Iyigun, Murat (contributor); Walsh, Randall P. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Do Couples Self-Insure? The Effect of Informal Care on a Couple's Labor Supply

Coe, Norma - 2011

How does informal care provision to an elderly parent affect the labor supply outcomes of a couple? Previous work examines the relationship between caregiving and the labor market decisions of the care provider, but ignores any labor supply response of the spouse to such decisions. Using data...

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Marriage with Labour Supply

Jacquemet, Nicolas - 2011

We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor … female wages. We estimate that the share of marriage surplus appropriated by the man increases with his wage and that the …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples

Bloemen, Hans - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Raaum, Oddbjorn - 2007

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find...

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The Effects of Marriage on Couples' Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours

El Lahga, AbdelRahmen - 2007

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples

Papps, Kerry L. - 2006

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

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