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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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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Time Use Dynamics in Paid Work and Household Activities of Married Women - A Panel Analysis with Household Information and Regional Labour Demand
Merz, Joachim - 2009
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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Commuting to work and gender-conforming social norms : evidence from same-sex couples
Oreffice, Sonia; Sansone, Dario - 2022
We assess the role of gender-conforming social norms in household decision-making and gender inequalities in the labor … market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we …
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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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Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants : differences by gender
Basu, Sukanya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 8, pp. 1-28
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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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being. …
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Feminization of Agricultural Labor and Women's Domestic Status : Evidence from Labor Households in India
Garikipati, Supriya - 2015
with a focus on domestic gender relations. We find that, despite increased labor market participation, women's household … relations within and outside the household. Their experiences, we argue, have implications for transformative policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053952
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Efficient labor supply for Latin families : is the intra-household bargaining power relevant?
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2018
the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions. …
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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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