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dc.contributor.authorBredemeier, Christianen
dc.contributor.authorJuessen, Falkoen
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-24-
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-11T14:28:37Z-
dc.date.available2011-02-11T14:28:37Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-201010132736en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/44161-
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account trends in assortative mating. We develop a model in which assortative mating determines the wage ratios within individual couples and thus the efficient time allocation of spouses. The economy-wide pattern of wives' hours by the husband's wage is downward-sloping for low degrees, hump-shaped for medium degrees, and upward-sloping for high degrees of assortative mating. A quantitative analysis of our model suggests that changes in the gender wage gap are responsible for the overall increase in hours worked by wives. By contrast, the fact that wives married to high-wage men experienced the most pronounced increase is a result of trends in assortative mating.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x5118en
dc.subject.jelE24en
dc.subject.jelJ22en
dc.subject.jelJ16en
dc.subject.jelD13en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordfemale labor supplyen
dc.subject.keywordassortative matingen
dc.subject.keywordgender wage gapen
dc.titleAssortative mating and female labor supply-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn644499648en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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