| 来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| Quality of Available Mates, Education and Intra-Household Bargaining Power | |
| Sonia Oreffice; Brighita Bercea | |
| 发表日期 | 2006 |
| 出处 | Economy and Society |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper further explores the role of sex ratios on spouses' bargaining power, by focusing on educational attainment in order to capture the qualitative aspect of mate availability. Using Census and Current Population Survey data for U.S. metropolitan areas in year 2000, a quality sex ratio is constructed by education brackets to test the effect on the intra-household bargaining power of couples in the corresponding education bracket. We argue that a relative shortage of suitably educated women in the spouse's potential marriage market increases wives' bargaining power in the household while it lowers their husbands'. Additionally, we test the prediction that this bargaining power effect is greater as the assortative mating order by education increases. We consider a collective labor supply household model, in which each spouse's labor supply is negatively related to their level of bargaining power. We find that higher relative shortage of comparably educated women in the couple's metropolitan area reduces wives' labor supply and increases their husbands'. Also, the labor supply impact is stronger for couples in higher education groups. No such effects are found for unmarried individuals, which is consistent with bargaining theory. |
| 特色分类 | D12,J12 |
| 关键词 | Education,Intra-Household Bargaining Power,Labor Supply |
| URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/quality-of-available-mates-education-and-intra-household-bargaining-power/ |
| 来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/117396 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sonia Oreffice,Brighita Bercea. Quality of Available Mates, Education and Intra-Household Bargaining Power. 2006. |
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