全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP5685 Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP5685
	DP5685 Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
	Maarten Lindeboom; Bas van der Klaauw; Ana Llena-Nozal
发表日期	2006-05-16
出版年	2006
语种	英语
摘要	The secular rise in female labour force participation, highlighted in the recent macroeconomics literature on growth and structural change, has been associated with the declining price and wider availability of home appliances. This paper uses a new and unique country dataset on the price of home appliances to test its impact on female labour supply. We assess the role of the price of appliances in raising participation by comparing it to other structural determinants such as average male income. A decrease in the relative price of appliances - the ratio of the price of appliances to the consumer price index - leads to a substantial and statistically significant increase in female labour force participation. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the decline in the relative price of home appliances accounts alone for about 10 to 15 percent of the increase in female labour force participation from 1975 to 1999. This result is robust to the inclusion of additional controls, such as country dummies, time trend, government spending, capital to output ratio, and the growth rate of real GDP. To assess causality, we test for exogeneity and use the manufactured price index as an instrumental variable, confirming that lower appliance prices lead to increased female participation.
主题	Public Economics
关键词	Female labour force participation Home appliances Structural changes Business cycles
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp5685
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534525
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Maarten Lindeboom,Bas van der Klaauw,Ana Llena-Nozal. DP5685 Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances. 2006.