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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions
Wolf, Elke - 1998
The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...
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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy Over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia - 2005
countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784078
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Twenty-five hours in a day : on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money
Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024
Flexible work schedules and telecommuting may help to improve the combination of work and family. This is arguably most important in households with (young) children. An open question is whether job flexibility can increase the well-being of the children, which depends, in part, on the time...
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Twenty-five hours in a day : on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money
Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024
Flexible work schedules and telecommuting may help to improve the combination of work and family. An open question is whether job flexibility can increase the well-being of the children, which depends on parental time spent on childcare. We propose a rich collective model describing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015143941
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Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 9, pp. 1-30
the NLSY79 and NLSY97 and a number of estimation strategies (including OLS, IV, and sibling FE). Our IV estimates (with …
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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?
Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020
could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271823
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Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia - 2004
Apps explains why time-use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and intrahousehold allocation of …. This paper is a product of the Gender Division, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078897
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Collective labour supply : heterogeneity and nonparticipation
Blundell, Richard W.; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Magnac, … - 2005
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257851
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Collective Labour Supply : Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation
Blundell, Richard W.; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Magnac, … - 2021
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318228