A Job and a Life
A Job and a Life

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Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 110

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A guide to work supports that are critical for working families, this handbook provides union leaders, activists, and negotiating teams, with information on how to bargain for important work and family issues, what state laws workers can take advantage of right now, and winning strategies for bargaining, political action and organizing.

Negotiating Family Responsibilities
Negotiating Family Responsibilities

Author: Janet Finch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1134888260

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Negotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight into contemporary family life, particularly kin relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that the real meaning of 'family' has shrunk to the nuclear family household, there is considerable evidence to suggest that relationships with the wider kin group remain an important part of most people's lives. Based on the findings of a major study of kinship, and including lively verbatim accounts of conversations with family members concepts of responsibility and obligation within family life are examined and the authors expand theories on the nature of assistance within families and argue that it is negotiated over time rather than given automatically.

Family Bargaining and Welfare
Family Bargaining and Welfare

Author: Luis Rubalcava

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Published: 2000

Total Pages: 35

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Bigger influence on the behavior of lower income households. The results are consistent with these predictions. AFDC generosity does affect the allocation of resources in households with young children and particularly lower income households with very young children. Corroborating evidence is drawn from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. The authors conclude that options outside marriage, as indicated by the generosity of AFDC benefits, affect bargaining power of women within marriage which, in turn, influences household resource allocation decisions.

Efficiency in Family Bargaining
Efficiency in Family Bargaining

Author: Liliana E. Pezzin

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 38

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In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the community, or live with any child who has invited coresidence. The second stage determines the assistance provided by each child in the family. Working by backward induction, we first calculate the level of assistance that each child would provide to the parent in each possible living arrangement. Using these calculations, we then analyze the living arrangement that would emerge from the first stage game. A key assumption of our model is that family members cannot or will not make binding agreements at the first stage regarding transfers at the second stage. Because coresidence is likely to reduce the bargaining power of the coresident child relative to her siblings, coresidence may fail to emerge as the equilibrium living arrangement even when it is Pareto efficient. That is, the outcome of the two-stage game need not be Pareto efficient.