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The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of … (1984-1987), where information of the household - including the husband's employment situation - is merged with regional …
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a fair distribution of relative working hours within the household. Using three nationally-representative data, we show …
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differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labor supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the well-being of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …
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perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household … less per day on household work, regardless their sexual orientation. We therefore conclude that, from a comparative …
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largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …
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We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...
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largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …, gender and earner role within the household. Our results show an average elasticity of 0.08 for men and of 0.14 for women as … women stems predominantly from the earner role of the individual within the household and nearly disappears once we control …
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The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...
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This paper examines married women's time allocation to market hours and spousal care in the event of their husbands' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. First, I find that while spousal labor supply...
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Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can …. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, a household labor market specialization index is created. Raw two-limit Tobit …
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