A Historical Perspective of Georgia's Economy

This report chronicles the history of Georgia's economy from the 1950s to the present and provides an outlook for the future growth areas in Georgia. FRC Report 10

Running Hard and Falling Behind: A Welfare Analysis of Two-Earner Families

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

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.Family utility · welfare · joint labor supply