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Married Women’s Labor Supply and Spousal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Results from Panel Data 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Jason E. Murasko 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(3):391-406
This paper investigates the effect of spousal insurance coverage on married women’s labor supply. This effect was hypothesized
to be negative, since married women have an incentive to seek employment in jobs that will provide insurance when their husbands
do not provide coverage. Panel data from the 1996–2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys was used to control for the potential
correlation between unobserved characteristics and spousal insurance. The findings suggest that spousal coverage does have
a negative effect on married women’s labor supply, and that most of the reduction in labor supply seems to derive from shifts
out of the labor force rather than between part-time and full-time work.
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Jason E. MuraskoEmail: |
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Bruce E. Kaufman 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(3):285-299
The most famous and influential diagram in modern (neoclassical) labor economics is the model of wage determination by supply
and demand. Using concepts and ideas from institutional economics, I argue that the theory of a perfectly competitive labor
market is logically contradictory and, hence, the demand/supply diagram cannot exist on the plane of pure theory. Four other
fundamental theorems concerning labor markets are also derived, as are implications about the theoretical foundation of the
field of industrial relations and the economic evaluation of labor and employment policy.
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Bruce E. KaufmanEmail: |
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Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at British
universities, we estimate the impact of personal relationships upon earnings for men and women. While university data cover
a relatively homogeneous group of workers, the two sides of the university are very different, with administrative jobs being
more like the general job market in the economy. We find a large and significant married male premium, but only on the administrative
side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men or to either heterosexual
or homosexual women.
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Jeff Frank (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Close to Home: A Simultaneous Equations Model of the Relationship Between Child Care Accessibility and Female Labor Force Participation 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
Rising rates of maternal employment among current and former welfare recipients have increased the use of non-parental child
care. Little empirical work examines the relationship between women’s labor supply and the geographic supply of child care.
We combine census data with child care provider information for the state of Maryland to explore the relationship between
female labor supply and the geographic supply of child care. OLS and 3-SLS equations are estimated, and the findings are consistent
across each estimator: Women’s labor supply is sensitive to the geographic supply of child care and vice versa. These results
are important because states now spend significant money on quality improvement initiatives, many of which increase child
care supply in low-income neighborhoods.
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Burt S. BarnowEmail: |
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Hideo Akabayashi 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(4):349-378
The Japanese tax system offers an opportunity to investigate the labor supply response of married women to the income tax
and the intrahousehold resource allocation mechanism, since the deductible amount from the husband’s income decreases as the
wife’s earnings increase. Using cross-section data, I structurally estimate the labor supply of married women under the piece-wise
linear budget constraint created by the Japanese tax and social security system. I find that the wife’s labor supply response
to her husband’s decreasing deduction tends to be greater than the response to her own income tax. This suggests that not
only the unitary model is rejected but also that female labor is allocated inefficiently within a family. Finally, this study
shows that the choice of household model affects the predicted effect of policy reform and that the currently proposed reforms
will have less of an effect on the labor supply of married women than previous studies claim.
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Hideo AkabayashiEmail: |
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We empirically analyzed the labor market participation of Italian women, with special emphasis on the role of intergenerational
family links. Older relatives, on the one hand, discourage the work participation of women by requiring care; on the other
hand they may provide household services favoring labor supply. We studied this dual impact estimating a trivariate probit
model where the three choices to be in the labor force, to use informal help from older relatives and to care for them are
jointly determined. Our estimates show that care duties towards members of the previous generation hinder the labor market
participation of Italian women, and that informal help received from older relatives strongly increases their probability
of being engaged in paid work.
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Anna MarenziEmail: |
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It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e., the higher the
sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among
less educated women. These predictions are tested using individual data from Current Population Surveys for four regions of
the U.S. (Northeast, Midwest, South and West), and for the U.S. as a whole, covering the period 1965–2005 at 5-year intervals.
Within-region sex ratio variation results from variation in cohort size (due principally to large fluctuations in number of
births) and limited fluctuations in the difference between male and female age at marriage. As hypothesized, we find that
sex ratios are inversely related to women’s labor force participation, reflecting that ceteris paribus women born in years
of peak baby-boom are more likely to be in the labor force than women born in years of peak baby-bust. Additionally, weaker
sex ratio effects are found among educated women in two of the four regions of the United States.
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Shoshana GrossbardEmail: |
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While the relationships between health insurance and the labor supply of women have been explored in the literature, little
is known about the effects of offering public health insurance on the labor supply decisions of married women. This paper
examines how the enactment of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) affected the labor supply decisions of
married women. Our empirical analysis showed that certain groups of married women reduced their number of hours worked upon
SCHIP implementation. The results imply it is possible that some wives decreased their labor supply in order to make their
children eligible for public health insurance.
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Ho Jin LeeEmail: |
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Did the legalization of abortion increase women’s household bargaining power? Evidence from labor supply 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Sonia Oreffice 《Review of Economics of the Household》2007,5(2):181-207
I estimate the impact of abortion legalization on spouses’ labor supplies to test whether legalization increased women’s household
bargaining power, in a collective household behavior framework. Based on CPS data, I find that wives’ labor supply decreased
and their husbands’ increased, which is consistent with the bargaining hypothesis. This contrasts with most studies of abortion
and birth control technologies, which predict a labor supply effect only for women, and of opposite sign. Also consistent
with the bargaining interpretation, I estimate no significant impact on anti-abortion religious couples or on those who regularly
used contraceptives. PSID data yield supportive evidence.
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Sonia OrefficeEmail: |
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Fairness considerations often are invoked to explain wage differences that appear unrelated to worker characteristics or job
conditions, but non-experimental tests of fair wage models are rare because market data rarely permit researchers to measure
individual workers’ productivity and its value. We use data from the baseball labor market to address this problem, and find
no support for fair wage theory. We do find, however, that fairness premia can be illusory: Wages appear to incorporate fairness
premia in regressions that control for variation in individuals’ physical output, but such premia evaporate when the value
of that output is held constant.
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Stephen J. K. WaltersEmail: |
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Aycan Çelikaksoy Helena Skyt Nielsen Mette Verner 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(3):253-275
It is a stylized fact that marriage formation involves positive assortative matching on education. We also find this in the
case of immigrants, even when they tend to “import” their spouses and potentially trade off education for other favorable
characteristics. For Pakistanis, we find positive compensating differentials in terms of high education to youth having adopted
host country norms, when marrying a marriage migrant. This indicates that Pakistani marriage migrants pay a premium to be
able to marry and live in Denmark. For Turks, individuals having source country norms pay a premium in order to import a partner,
indicating that unspoiled traditional norms are traded off for education.
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Mette Verner (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Nasser Daneshvary C. Jeffrey Waddoups Bradley S. Wimmer 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(4):365-379
This paper provides insight into the wage gap between lesbians and heterosexual women. Using data from the 2000 Decennial
Census, we find a lesbian premium that equals approximately 10% for women without a bachelor’s degree, and is nearly non-existent
for women with higher levels of education. These findings are consistent with proposition that the gap between lesbians’ and
heterosexual women’s commitment to the labor market narrows at higher levels of education. We also find that controls for
industry and occupation exert only a small effect on the gap between lesbian and heterosexual women’s wages.
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Bradley S. WimmerEmail: |
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Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Discrimination 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
We develop empirical estimates of the return to sexual orientation in the labor market and utilize the 2004 Current Population
Survey to determine if lesbians and gay men are treated differently from their heterosexual counterparts. We find strong evidence
consistent with the hypothesis of discriminatory treatment against gay men, and this evidence differs substantially by occupation.
On the other hand, we find no evidence of discrimination against lesbians. These findings are consistent with priors based
on economic theory of the standard taste for discrimination and statistical discrimination models. The results for both men
and women are consistent across wage and total compensation regressions.
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Edinaldo TebaldiEmail: |
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In recent years, both Australia and New Zealand have embarked on significant labor market reforms which have resulted in more
decentralized and individualized systems of industrial relations. Although both countries share a common heritage of state-sponsored
conciliation and arbitration, which fostered a centralized approach to labor market regulation, each has responded in its
own way to economic and political pressures to reform its long-established industrial relations system. Despite differences
in the process of indusrial relations reform, both countries now have industrial relations systems which are more individualistic
and in which unions play a less significant role than in the past.
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Russell D. LansburyEmail: |
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Kerry Anne McGeary 《Review of Economics of the Household》2009,7(3):307-321
The financial viability of the nation’s Medicare and Social Security programs has come into question as older adult workers,
in particular members of the baby-boomer generation, begin to voluntarily retire. Obviously, any deterioration in the health
of older adults will inevitably increase pressure on the Medicare system. However, if older adults respond to changes in their
health by reducing their labor supply, than this will also increase demand for the Social Security system. Using data on married
and employed couples from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), this paper determines how the labor supply of each member
of a married couple is influenced by changes in the health, assets and medical expenditures of the other member of the couple. Therefore, adding to the extant literature as we determine how the labor supply of an individual responds
to health shocks visited on their spouse. We find that the labor supply of both males and females is influenced by their own
health shocks and health shocks suffered by their spouses.
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Kerry Anne McGearyEmail: |
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This paper examines the interactions between spouses’ decisions to join the labor force. We use the asymptotic least squares
method in order to estimate a system of equations with limited dependent variables. We find that when spouse’s decision-making
is modeled as simultaneous, this affects primarily the man’s participation equation who appears to be positively influenced
by whether the woman works or not, by the number of children and by the birth of a child. The woman’s decision to participate
is not affected by whether the man participates or not and depends negatively of the number of children and the birth of a
child. This implies that there is a female leadership in decisions to participate in the labor market and that the added-worker
effect should be reinterpreted as a function of demography rather than unemployment.
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Véronique Simonnet (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Rupa Banerjee 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(4):380-401
This study investigates perceptions of workplace discrimination among racial minorities in Canada. Specifically, the study
examines how objective experiences of disadvantage and expectations for equity influence racial minorities’ perceptions of
discrimination. The results indicate that while both of these factors affect perceptions of discrimination, expectations for
equity may be especially important. Although new immigrants are among the most disadvantaged groups in the Canadian labor
market, they are less likely to perceive discrimination than longer term immigrants, who may have higher expectations for
equitable treatment. Education also increases the perception of discrimination among immigrants, perhaps due to the higher
expectations of educated immigrants. Lastly, objective income inequity is not found to be related to perceived discrimination.
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Rupa BanerjeeEmail: |
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The international labor rights movement, led by the International Labour Organization (ILO), asserts that developing countries
are currently ready for more stringent labor standards. We investigate this claim by examining the timing of labor standard
adoption in highly developed countries, which were all once as poor as today’s developing countries and made the trade-off
between labor standards and income in the past. Their experience therefore suggests a safe income threshold for adopting similar
labor standards in the developing world. We find that every ILO-proposed labor standard is highly premature for the developing
countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Countries there are between 100 and 300 years from reaching this threshold. Similarly, we
find that so-called sweatshop-intensive developing countries are between 35 and 100 years from this threshold. ILO-proposed
policy is exactly backward. A substantial relaxation of labor standards is the appropriate labor policy for the developing
world.
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Peter T. LeesonEmail: |
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Collective Models of Labor Supply with Nonconvex Budget Sets and Nonparticipation: A Calibration Approach 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Frederic Vermeulen Olivier Bargain Miriam Beblo Denis Beninger Richard Blundell Raquel Carrasco Maria-Concetta Chiuri François Laisney Valérie Lechene Nicolas Moreau Michal Myck Javier Ruiz-Castillo 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(2):113-127
We suggest a methodology to calibrate a collective model with household-specific bargaining rules and marriage-specific preferences
that incorporate leisure externalities. The empirical identification relies on the assumption that some aspects of individual
preferences remain the same after marriage, so that estimation on single individuals can be used. The procedure maps the complete
Pareto frontier of each household in the dataset and we define alternative measures of a power index. The latter is then regressed
on relevant bargaining factors, including a set of variables retracing the potential relative contributions of the spouses
to household disposable income. In its capacity to handle complex budget sets and labor force participation decisions of both
spouses, this framework allows the comparison of unitary and collective predictions of labor supply reactions and welfare
changes entailed by fiscal reforms in a realistic setting (see Michal Myck et al., 2006; Denis Beninger et al., 2006).
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Frederic VermeulenEmail: |
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This study seeks, using state-level data, to identify key factors that help to explain recent trends of labor force participation
among women. Adult females are treated as attempting to maximize utility subject to a variety of budgetary and non-budgetary
constraints. Among the findings obtained is a positive impact from the level of public assistance, i.e., the greater the extent
of public assistance to adult females in the forms of Supplemental Security Income, Food Stamps, and so forth, the higher
the female labor force participation rate (FLFPR). Other factors contributing to observed FLFPRs include age, the presence
of young children, family income, educational attainment and disability status. In addition, we also find evidence that an
increase in the proportion of the population that is non-native to the U.S. has a negative effect on the FLFPR.
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Richard J. CebulaEmail: |