The added worker effect in the Spanish case |
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| Authors: | Juan Prieto-Rodríguez César Rodríguez-Gutiérrez |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Business Administration , Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , P.O.B. 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel azar@som.bgu.ac.il |
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| Abstract: | This study estimates several equations of labour participation for married women to check if the ‘added worker hypothesis’ is fulfilled in the Spanish case. To test this hypothesis a subsample of married women are used, obtained from the Survey of Structure, Conscience and Biography of Class of the year 1991 (SCBC-91). The main outcome is that women's labour participation in Spain is still conditioned by their husbands' labour status. Specifically, women's labour participation is stimulated when their husbands are unemployed. |
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