Running hard and falling behind: a welfare analysis of two-earner families |
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| Authors: | Hotchkiss J L Kassis M M Moore R E |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA (Fax: (404) 651-3996, e-mail: jhotchkiss@gsu.edu), GE;(2) Economic Forecasting Center, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA (Fax: (404) 651-3229, e-mail: ecfmmk@ba-ecfor.gsu.edu), GE;(3) Department of Economics and Finance, The J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061-0490, USA, and Department of Economics, School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA (Fax: (404) 651–3996, e-mail: rmoore@gsu.edu), GE |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the commonly asserted proposition that long term economic changes have put the family in a financial
bind. Structural parameters of a family utility model are obtained by estimating simultaneous labor supply functions for a
two-earner household. We find evidence indicating that the average 1990‘s two-earner family would prefer to receive the 1980‘s
real wage package (were it available) instead of the real wage package it actually faces. The degree to which the 1990‘s family
is worse off (in terms of the changes in the real wage package) is roughly equivalent to an hour of leisure per week.
Received September 25, 1995 / Accepted February 5, 1997 |
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| Keywords: | JEL classification: D10 J22 C31 |
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