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Originally Posted by woj
not to mention that whole premise of "employment-population ratio" is debatable, is high or low number good? look at 2 households,
1. husband works 40 hours a week, makes $100k/year
wife doesn't work
"employment-population ratio" = 50%
2. both work 40 hours a week, making $50k each
"employment-population ratio" = 100%
isn't household 1 better off? and yet their "employment-population ratio" is half of the 2nd one....
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Better for who? Maybe the wife wants to work? How about the work hours in the society in general? Also this model relies for traditional family cohesion, that isn't the case in modern societies. There is huge amount of singles and divorced folks. If there is just one job per family; either one is fucked before marriage or after divorce. Although USA is famous for the big after divorce payments for either one; usually for the wife. But still, considering the requirement that people can (if wanting) independently support themselves economically; it requires jobs for everyone.
Also not everyone like the old model: "woman gets sold" to a man, so that the selling (and still paying) family gets someone to support her. In the model you presented; women aren't very independent.