Does Spousal Labor Smooth Fluctuations in Husbands' Earnings? : The Role of Liquidity Constraints /

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the role of spousal labor in buffering transitory shocks to husbands' earnings. To measure the amount of the shock that spousal labor absorbs, an instrumented cross-sectional variance decomposition is developed. Using data from the Panel Stu...

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Autore principale: Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/020
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF