Culture and Household Decision Making. Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-Born and Foreign-Born Couples

Oreffice, S (2014) Culture and Household Decision Making. Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-Born and Foreign-Born Couples Journal of Labor Research, 35 (2). pp. 162-184.

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Abstract

This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census, I show that the hours worked by US-born couples, and by those foreign-born coming from countries with gender roles similar to the US, are significantly related to common bargaining power forces such as differences between spouses in age and non-labor income, controlling for both spouses' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Households whose culture of origin supports strict and unequal gender roles do not exhibit any association of these power factors with their labor supply decisions. This cultural asymmetry suggests that spousal attributes are assessed differently across couples within the US, and that how spouses make use of their outside opportunities and economic and institutional environment may depend on their ethnicities. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Surrey research (other units)
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Oreffice, S s.oreffice@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	1 January 2014
DOI :	10.1007/s12122-014-9177-5
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	16 May 2017 15:29
Last Modified :	24 Jan 2020 14:47
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/820058

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