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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes
フォーマット: 雑誌
言語:English
出版事項: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
シリーズ:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/020
オンライン・アクセス:Full text available on IMF