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The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women's Labour Supply

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Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana
Neuman, Shoshana

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This paper examines differences in the labour supply of women of different religions in Israel. We estimate religious differentials in the effect of husband’s income, number of children, education, and age on married women’s labour supply. It is suggested that labour supply patterns of wives from different religious backgrounds may reveal differences in the institutions which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian marital institutions are closer to Jewish marital institutions than they are to Moslem marital institutions. Moslem women appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or Jewish women. Educated Moslem women seem to have fewer constraints on their marriages than their uneducated counterparts.

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Keywords: Israel; Labour Force Participation; Marriage; Religion;

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J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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  1. Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman & Xuanning Fu, 2002. "Women's Labor Force Participation and Status Exchange in Intermarriage: A Model and Evidence for Hawaii1," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, vol. 4(3), pages 241-268, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Danziger, Leif & Neuman, Shoshana, 1999. "On the Age at Marriage: Theory and Evidence from Jews and Moslems in Israel," CEPR Discussion Papers 2209, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Jennifer C. Olmsted, 2002. "Assessing The Impact Of Religion On Gender Status," Feminist Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 8(3), pages 99-111, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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