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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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Intra-household wealth and welfare inequality in the US : estimations from a collective model of labor supply
Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
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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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Labor market opportunities and women's decision making power within households
Majlesi, Kaveh - In: Journal of development economics 119 (2016), pp. 34-47
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Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US : Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply
Molina, Jose Alberto - 2018
This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912744
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Labor market transitions of members of opposite-sex couples: nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2021
transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … analysis, and household specific unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Results show that female transitions into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607755
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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012
. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of … measured from a representative household model partly reflects inaccurate household aggregation. …
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Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy (1977-1998)
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia - 2021
Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), a repeated cross-sectional survey that covers the period 1977-1998, we …
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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes
Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021
We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...
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Overwork in spouse's degree field and the labor market outcomes of skilled women
McKinnish, Terra G. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of overwork and underwork in husband's undergraduate degree field on the labor market outcomes of skilled married women using 2009-2015 ACS data. Overwork and underwork by degree field, respectively, are measured as the fraction of prime-aged men reporting 50 or...
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