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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Главный автор: Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/020
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF