TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bredemeier, Christian
AU  - Juessen, Falko
        TI  - Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
        PY  - 2009/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3944
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3944
        AB  - We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to outsourcing labor in home production becoming more attractive to households over time. To investigate this hypothesis, we incorporate heterogeneous agents into a household model of labor supply and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and marital status as a reaction to declining frictions on the market for home services. We provide an accounting exercise to highlight the role of alternative explanations for the rise in hours in a model where home labor is tradable.
        KW  - labor supply
KW  - gender
KW  - home production
KW  - heterogeneity
        ER  -