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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 …
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The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977273
The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762111
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319318
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257851
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318228
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
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This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labor at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
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