Labor supply choices within families / vorgelegt von Dorothée Averkamp, M.Sc. Wuppertal, April 2024
Inhalt
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps - A Family Economics Perspective
- Introduction
- Related literature
- A model of career investments in dual-earner households
- Career-investment and consumption stage
- Marriage-market stage
- Linking equilibrium wages to characteristics
- Wage-gap decompositions in the model
- Empirical analysis
- Sample selection, explanatory variables, and descriptive statistics
- Wage regressions
- Baseline decomposition
- Sensitivity
- Implications for households with a single earner
- Wage effect of partner's experience and role of children
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Marriage market equilibrium - A two-couple example
- Derivation of the linearized wage equation
- Additional information on the sample
- Regression results
- The Gender Wage Gap, Labor-Market Experience, and Family Choices: Lessons from East Germany
- Introduction
- Related Literature
- Data
- Current gender and regional differences in wages and labor-market experience
- East-West differences in experience accumulation
- Life-cycle regression approach
- Estimation results for women
- Estimation results for men
- Summary of experience profile analysis
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Further details of gender wage gap analysis
- Further details of experience-gap analysis
- Household Chores, Taxes, and the Labor-Supply Elasticities of Women and Men
- Introduction
- Related literature
- Model
- Empirical Analysis
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Theoretical model
- Household optimization
- Government optimization and optimal taxation
- Approximation of the Frisch elasticity of labor supply
- Marginal propensity to earn out of unearned income
- Additional regression results
- Concluding Remarks
- References