Household Specialization and Wage Discrimination
In a household model where two partners make joint decisions to maximize their total well-being, explain the economic reasoning for why a decrease in one partner's market wage (due to external factors) would lead that partner to specialize more in household production, even if both partners are equally productive at home.
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