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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018

small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most … explanation for the limited scope of intra-household insurance. …

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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides

Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018 - This version: October 17, 2018

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a … gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss and, in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a … more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the …

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Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model

Turon, Hélène - 2019

population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …

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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?

Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020

by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly …", i.e. convenient for combining career and household activities, and increase female labor participation. The policy …

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Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia F. - 2004

that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior in both industrial and developing economies …

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Household collective models : three decades of theoretical contributions and empirical evidence

Donni, Olivier; Molina, José Alberto - 2018

Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …

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Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households : evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-25

We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...

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Educated Couples’ Location Choice and Intra-Household Bargaining

Forouzandeh, Ramin - 2023

diminishes with age. I examine several hypotheses for this phenomenon, among which the division of labor within the household is …

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Heterogeneous couples, household interactions and labor supply elasticities of married women

Kaya, Ezgi - 2014

educational attainments of husbands and wives) and explicitly modeling how household members interact and make labor supply … to study how changes in educational attainments and household structure affect aggregate labor supply elasticities. …

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