Motivated by declining labor market opportunities in Taiwan, this study examines adjustments to wives' work patterns based on husbands' job loss for both unskilled and skilled labor families. Explicitly taking information acquired before job losses into account, married couples' dynamic labor...

Globalization in the past few decades has expedited world economic growth and increased communication and interdependence among countries and citizens. Nonetheless, it generates social tensions as reduced border barriers make explicit of costs of those maintaining higher labor standards, create...