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This paper examines labour supply adjustment – both hours worked and participation decisions. We focus on the response of each to financial shocks, employing data from the BHPS. Estimated responses are broadly consistent with models of self-insurance that incorporate labour supply flexibility....
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production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home …
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production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity – in … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, satisfaction with the marriage, divorce, and the division of home …
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distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …
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with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 … years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We found that the probability of a child dropping out of … school increased significantly when the household experienced an illness, death or asset shock. We proposed a test to …
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Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income …
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with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 … years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We found that the probability of a child dropping out of … school increased significantly when the household experienced an illness, death or asset shock. We proposed a test to …
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Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), a repeated cross-sectional survey that covers the period 1977-1998, we … market of women with highincome husbands has heightened concerns that wives' earnings may increase income inequality among … married couples. Questions about the implications for income distribution have also been raised, especially in countries like …
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