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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主要作者: Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/020
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF