Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/97345 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 709
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with substantial leisure complementarity, and specifically cut the non-usual component of their workweek, leaving usual hours unchanged. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier constraints in the organization of their workweek
Subjects: 
Labour supply
Workweek reduction
Leisure complementarity
JEL: 
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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