Search Results - subject:"FAMILY LABOR"

Aggregation with two-member households and home production

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2016

This note explores the problem of family labor supply decision in an economy with two-member households, joint home …

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Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs? : family and kinship ties offer multiple benefits to developing country entrepreneurs but can also have adverse effects

Nordman, Christophe J. - 2016

Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and...

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Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012

Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016

New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm and nonfarm household enterprises when household members are placed in paid...

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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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