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Fertility and its consequence on family labour supply

Jungho Kim (contributor); Aassve, Arnstein (contributor) - 2006

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

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Job Security and Fertility Decisions

Lopes, Marta - 2020

job security on fertility decisions. Using a policy reform, which took place in Portugal in 2003, I show that the lower … dynamic life-cycle structural model where women decide both labour supply and fertility, conditional on the characteristics of …

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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Kim, Jungho - 2007

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Synchronous leisure, jointness and household labor supply

Hallberg, Daniel - 2002

This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...

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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

Using the 2003-2019 American Time Use Survey, we examine how living with a parent who has a work-limiting disability is related to teenagers' time allocation. For girls, we find that living with a disabled parent is associated with less time spent on educational activities, including both class...

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Time for children, a study of parents' time allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...

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On the optimality of joint taxation with household production

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2001

The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...

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Empirical estimation results of a collective household time allocation model

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2005

the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

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Common law marriage and male/female convergence in labor supply and time use

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more legal protection to household producers at the margin...

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Household behavior and the marriage market

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - 2013

There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the possibility of using revealed preference data on household...

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