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Running hard and falling behind: A welfare analysis of two-earner families

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This paper investigates the commonly asserted proposition that long term economic changes have put the family in a financial bind. Structural parameters of a family utility model are obtained by estimating simultaneous labor supply functions for a two-earner household. We find evidence indicating that the average 1990‘s two-earner family would prefer to receive the 1980‘s real wage package (were it available) instead of the real wage package it actually faces. The degree to which the 1990‘s family is worse off (in terms of the changes in the real wage package) is roughly equivalent to an hour of leisure per week.

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  1. Department of Economics, School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA (Fax: (404) 651-3996, e-mail: jhotchkiss@gsu.edu), , , , , , GE

    Julie L. Hotchkiss

  2. Economic Forecasting Center, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA (Fax: (404) 651-3229, e-mail: ecfmmk@ba-ecfor.gsu.edu), , , , , , GE

    Mary Mathewes Kassis

  3. Department of Economics and Finance, The J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061-0490, USA, and Department of Economics, School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA (Fax: (404) 651–3996, e-mail: rmoore@gsu.edu), , , , , , GE

    Robert E. Moore

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Received September 25, 1995 / Accepted February 5, 1997

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Hotchkiss, J., Kassis, M. & Moore, R. Running hard and falling behind: A welfare analysis of two-earner families. J Popul Econ 10, 237–250 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001480050041

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