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作者：Heath, Rachel; Tan, Xu
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Standard models of labor supply predict that unearned income decreases labor supply. We propose an alternative noncooperative household model in which a woman's unearned income improves her autonomy within the household, which raises her gains from working and can increase her labor supply. We find empirical support for this model, using women's exposure to the Hindu Succession Act in India as a source of exogenous variation in their unearned income. Exposure to the Hindu Succession Act increa...
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作者：Herz, Benedikt; van Rens, Thijs
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the United States over the past three and a half decades. We propose an accounting framework that allows us to estimate the contribution of each of the frictions that generated labor market mismatch. Barriers to job mobility account for the largest part of mismatch unemployment, with a smaller role for barriers to worker mobility. We find little contribution of wage-setting frictions to mismatch.
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作者：Attanasio, Orazio; Krutikova, Sonya
作者单位：Yale University; Yale University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper uses a dataset from Tanzania with information on consumption, income, and income shocks within and across family networks. Crucially and uniquely, it also contains data on the degree of information existing between each pair of households within family networks. We use these data to construct a novel measure of the quality of information both at the level of household pairs and at the level of the network. We also note that the individual level measures can be interpreted as measure...
