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The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, thereby generalizing the initial results of Apps and Rees (1997) and Chiappori (1997). The theoretical...
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Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behavior of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...
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reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …
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estimate significant marriage effects upon time use. Most married women gain 33-34 minutes of leisure each weekday when … compared to single women. While marriage does not lead to more leisure for husbands, it allows them to allocate time away from … home and towards market work. Lower-income couples work more at home and for pay, and spend less time in leisure than their …
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In this paper, I examine the causal impact of health shocks on time spent in home production among retirees using the Health and Retirement Study data. On the one hand, an increase in home production can shelter consumption from falling net income due to medical costs increase (income effect)....
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Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113079
The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, thereby generalizing the initial results of Apps and Rees (1997) and Chiappori (1997). The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965636
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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There are several striking peculiarities of the arts labor market that have attracted the attentions of researchers in the last several decades: first is constant long run excess supply of arts labor; second, artists are more likely to be multiple-job-holders than other professions; third,...
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