Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use
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Keywords
law and economics; marriage; labor supply; household production;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2014-02-08 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2014-02-08 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2014-02-08 (Law & Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-02-08 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
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