Does the labour supply of wives respond to husbands' wages? Canadian evidence from micro data and grouped data

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1185-1210

  Morissette, René ^a   Hou, Feng ^a  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR SUPPLY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MICROECONOMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAGE DETERMINATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 53349176788     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: 15405982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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