Accounting for Changes in Labor Force Participation of Married Women: The Case of the U.S. since 1959
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Keywords
labor force participation; married couples; family time allocation; gender earnings gap; home production;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
- J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
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