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| Title: | | Household labor supply and home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents  |
| Authors: | | Bredemeier, Christian Jüßen, Falko |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3944 |
| Abstract: | | We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to outsourcing labor in home production becoming more attractive to households over time. To investigate this hypothesis, we incorporate heterogeneous agents into a household model of labor supply and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and marital status as a reaction to declining frictions on the market for home services. We provide an accounting exercise to highlight the role of alternative explanations for the rise in hours in a model where home labor is tradable. |
| Subjects: | | Labor supply gender home production heterogeneity |
| JEL: | | J22 J16 E13 D13 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090209140 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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