Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply

"We investigate cross-hour effects in spousal labor supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the short workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labor sup...

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Main Authors: Goux, Dominique, Maurin, Eric, Petrongolo, Barbara
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: London 2011
LSE
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19136520124919547029-Worktime-regulations-and-spous.htm
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author Goux, Dominique
Maurin, Eric
Petrongolo, Barbara
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Maurin, Eric
Petrongolo, Barbara
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description "We investigate cross-hour effects in spousal labor supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the short workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labor supply by about 2 hours, and do not experience any reduction in their monthly earnings. While wives of treated men do not seem to adjust their working time at either the intensive or extensive margins, husbands of treated wives respond by cutting their labor supply by about half an hour to one hour per week, according to specifications and samples. Further tests reveal that husbands’ labor supply response did not entail the renegotiation of usual hours with employers or changes in earnings, but involved instead a reduction in (unpaid) work involvement, whether within a given day, or through an increase in the take-up rate of paid vacation and/or sick leave. These margins of adjustment are shown to have no detrimental impact on men’s (current) earnings. The estimated cross-hour effects are consistent with the presence of spousal leisure complementarity for husbands, though not for wives."
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publishDate 2011
publisher London
LSE
spellingShingle Goux, Dominique
Maurin, Eric
Petrongolo, Barbara
gender
household production
labour supply
reduction of working time
women
working time
Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
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title Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
topic gender
household production
labour supply
reduction of working time
women
working time
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19136520124919547029-Worktime-regulations-and-spous.htm