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Sexual orientation and household decision making: Same-sex couples' balance of power and labor supply choices

I estimate how intra-household bargaining affects gay and lesbian couples' labor supplies, investigating their similarity to heterosexual decision-making, in a collective household framework. Data from the 2000 US Census show that couples of all types exhibit a significant response to bargaining power shifts, as measured by differences between partners in age or non-labor income. In gay, lesbian, and heterosexual cohabiting couples, a relatively young or rich partner has more bargaining power and hence supplies less labor, the opposite holding for his/her mate. Married couples value the older spouse instead, or the richer. No effects are found for same-sex roommates.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 81.2008

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Thema
Household Decision Making
Same-Sex Couples
Labor Supply

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Oreffice, Sonia
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
(wo)
Milano
(wann)
2008

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  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Oreffice, Sonia
  • Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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