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dc.contributor.authorBredemeier, Christianen
dc.contributor.authorJüßen, Falkoen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-22-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:58:48Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:58:48Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090209140en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35817-
dc.description.abstractWe 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3944en
dc.subject.jelJ22en
dc.subject.jelJ16en
dc.subject.jelE13en
dc.subject.jelD13en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordLabor supplyen
dc.subject.keywordgenderen
dc.subject.keywordhome productionen
dc.subject.keywordheterogeneityen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsangeboten
dc.subject.stwHaushaltsökonomiken
dc.subject.stwFrauenerwerbstätigkeiten
dc.subject.stwEheen
dc.subject.stwHausarbeiten
dc.subject.stwOutsourcingen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleHousehold labor supply and home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn589816713en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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