Female Labor Supply as Insurance against Idiosyncratic Risk
- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the European Economic Association
- Vol. 3 (2-3) , 755-764
- https://doi.org/10.1162/jeea.2005.3.2-3.755
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the role of female labor supply as an insurance mechanism against idiosyncratic earnings risk within the family. We use a lKeywords
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