Authors: | Bredemeier, Christian |
Title: | Household specialization and the labor-supply elasticities of women and men |
Language (ISO): | en |
Abstract: | This paper studies gender differences in the elasticity of labor supply in a model of household specialization. We show that household specialization implies larger Frisch elasticities for the partner that specializes in home production. Quantitatively, empirical time-use ratios alone imply differences in the Frisch elasticity between women and men of about 50%. Similar results are obtained for long-run elasticities. However, limited commitment within the household reduces the gender differences in long-run labor-supply elasticities. Our results imply that the elasticity of labor supply is not a deep parameter but can react on, e.g., gender-biased employment subsidies, public child care provision, and divorce laws. |
Subject Headings: | labor-supply elasticity home production gender |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2003/33115 http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-15575 |
Issue Date: | 2014-05-12 |
Appears in Collections: | Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 823 |
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