Unpaid Family Labor

Harriet Duleep (), Mark C. Regets (), Seth Sanders () and Phanindra V. Wunnava ()
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Harriet Duleep: William & Mary
Mark C. Regets: National Foundation for American Policy
Seth Sanders: Cornell University
Phanindra V. Wunnava: Middlebury College

Chapter Chapter 15 in Human Capital Investment, 2020, pp 169-175 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We explore how wives, children, and other relatives contribute to family-owned businesses as unpaid workers. As they are unpaid, their contribution to the family’s economic assimilation is not captured in traditional human capital earnings models. We find that a husband’s self-employment status affects the wife’s decision to work in the labor market and often supersedes the effects of other husband-related characteristics typically found in female labor force participation models.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8_15

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