The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Grossbard, Shoshana (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Microeconomics.; Labor economics.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Economics.; Labor Economics.; Family.; Sociology, general.

While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Part A. A Model of Work-In-Household with Privately Consumed Household Goods
• A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage: Macro Model
• A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage: Multiple Markets for Work-In-Household
• Part B. Labor Supply and Other Time Uses
• Macro-Level Implications for Empirical Analyses of Allocation and Valuation of Time: Income, Wage and Sex Ratio Effects
• Implications for Labor Supply with Multiple Markets for Work-In-Household
• Revisiting Labor Supply Effects of Sex Ratios, Income, Wage. Effects of Marriage-Related Laws
• Labor Supply, Household Production and Common Law Marriage Legislation (with Victoria Vernon)
• Labor Supply and Marriage Market Conditions: A Simple Graphic Analysis When household Goods are Publicly Consumed
• Household Production and Racial Intermarriage (with J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and J. Alberto Molina)
• Part C. Consumption and Savings
• A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work-in-Household
• A Theory of Savings, In-Marriage Transfers, and Work-in-Household.