Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara
• 署名单位: Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Paris School of Economics; University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.1.252
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 252-276
• 关键词: elasticities; micro; MODEL

摘要

We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with substantial leisure complementarity, and specifically cut the nonusual component of their workweek, leaving usual hours unchanged. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier constraints in the organization of their workweek.