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Title: Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics
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Lundberg, Shelly |
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Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, September 2004. Also: http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/Lundberg/Men_LE.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: European Association of Labour Economists Keyword(s): Family Studies; Fatherhood; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. I would like to suggest that family arrangements in the developed world have become, over the past few decades, so complex, so varied, and so transitory that the key work-family problem facing labor economists is the simultaneity of individual decisions in these two domains. The presence of a partner, wife, or child in a man's household influence his work effort and his earnings, but are also influenced by his past labor market decisions, current constraints, and his expectations about future opportunities. With widespread increases in divorce, cohabitation, and nonmarital childbearing, men are far more likely to be marginal decision-makers with respect to family status domains such as marriage and custodial parenthood, and these decisions are closely connected to a man's strategies as an individual worker and investor. Demographic changes have practical implications both for the returns to marriage and costs of children literature, and for labor economists who use family status measures as controls for unobserved productivity. No single econometric technique or set of techniques can "solve" the family-work simultaneity problem, but a recognition that the world has changed in a way that makes a clear separation between family economics and labor economics impossible can improve our modeling of, and understanding of, work and income. |
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Lundberg, Shelly. "Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics." Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, September 2004. |