Changes in Relative Wages and Family Labor Supply.
The large changes in relative wages that occurred during the 1980s provide fertile ground for studying the behavioral responses of married couples to the wage changes of husbands and wives. I find estimates of own-wage and cross-wage elasticities for men that are very small. The own-wage elasticity...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 696 - 723 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Summer2004
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