| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w5044 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 5044 |
| Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment | |
| David Neumark; Andrew Postlewaite | |
| 发表日期 | 1995-02-01 |
| 出版年 | 1995 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We ask whether women's decisions to be in the labor force may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not captured by standard models. We develop a model that augments the simple neoclassical framework by introducing relative income concerns into women's (or families') utility functions. In this model, the entry of some women into paid employment can spur the entry of other women, independently of wage and income effects. This mechanism may help to explain why, over some periods, women's employment appeared to rise faster than could be accounted for by the simple neoclassical model. We test the model by asking whether women's decisions to seek paid employment depend on the employment decisions of other women with whom relative income comparisons might be important. In particular, we look at the effects of sisters' employment on women's own employment. We find strong evidence that women's employment decisions are positively related to their sisters' employment decisions. We also take account of the possibility that this positive relationship arises from heterogeneity across families in unobserved variables affecting the employment decision. We conduct numerous empirical analyses to reduce or eliminate this heterogeneity bias. We also look at the relationship between husbands' relative income and wives' employment decisions. In our view, the evidence is largely supportive of the relative income hypothesis. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w5044 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/562473 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Neumark,Andrew Postlewaite. Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment. 1995. |
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