Engines of liberation redux when home appliances prices are endogenous (Einfluss des Preises von Haushaltsgeräten auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen)

Sebastien Buttet and Veronika Dolar
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Sebastien Buttet: City University of New York, Guttman Community College

Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, vol. 48, issue 1, 27-40

Abstract: "We propose a model of the household where the transmission mechanism between home appliances and women's labor supply is identical to the one in Greenwood et al. (2005b) with one important exception. We explicitly model firms' pricing and output choices in the appliances sector and thus, the price of home appliances is determined endogenously by the laws of supply and demand rather than being taken exogenously from outside the model. We use this new framework to characterize the general equilibrium effects of rising household wages on the price of home appliances, and thus ultimately women's labor supply. The ratio between the price of home appliances and household wages declines following a rise in the wage level, which leads to widespread adoption of home appliances and increased labor force participation of married women. A numerical example shows that rising wages account for half of the increase in participation of married women between 1960 and 1970." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: USA; Auswirkungen; Auswirkungen; Auswirkungen; Ehefrauen; Elektrotechnik; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Erwerbsquote; Haushaltseinkommen; Investitionsgüterindustrie; Nachfrageentwicklung; Preisentwicklung; Preisniveau; private Haushalte; Technik; technische Entwicklung; 1960-1970 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-12
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