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Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income …
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Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months...
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We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of their partner. So far, this bunching has been explained by couple formation or couples' labor market decisions. We propose an additional mechanism: income misreporting in surveys....
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justifications for these gender gaps, it is important to consider the presence of children in the household, the hours of work and …
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allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … valuation of the public household good should be taxed at a higher rate. If these valuations are identical, a comparative …
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decisions of partners within one household. Thereby, an interdependent model of the partners’ times allocated to paid and unpaid … countries as well - gender differences in employment and wages still persist. -- Intra-household division of labor ; time … Männern und Frauen. Während das Arbeitsangebot von Männern unabhängig von der Zeitallokation der Partnerin ist, passen Frauen …
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Using data from the 2006 Turkish Time-Use Survey, we examine gender differences in time allocation among married heterosexual couples over the life cycle. While we find large discrepancies in the gender division of both paid and unpaid work at each life stage, the gender gap in paid and unpaid...
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While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known about the expectations of these objects at earlier stages. We examine these expectations, taking advantage of unique data from the Berea Panel Study. In addition to characterizing...
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household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis. The main findings suggest that women's labor allocation to economic … activities is comparable to that of men. Household chores and care work are women's responsibility, which they perform with …
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This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …
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