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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
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Specialization and happiness : a US-Japan comparison
Lee, Kristen Schultz (contributor); Ono, Hiroshi (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. February 18, 2008
This paper examines the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the U.S. and Japan. Our … findings, based on the General Social Surveys in the U.S. and Japan, indicate both similarities and differences in the … dependent on their wives. In Japan, we find support for the specialization model, particularly in the case of women; they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003350217
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Specialization and happiness: A US-Japan comparison
Lee, Kristen Schultz; Ono, Hiroshi - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the U.S. and Japan. Our … findings, based on the General Social Surveys in the U.S. and Japan, indicate both similarities and differences in the … dependent on their wives. In Japan, we find support for the specialization model, particularly in the case of women; they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281185
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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646721
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Inequalities within couples : market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003583444
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Direct and indirect effects of unilateral divorce law on marital stability
Kneip, Thorsten; Bauer, Gerrit; Reinhold, Steffen - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521810
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Retirement patterns of couples in Europe
Hospido, Laura; Zamarro, Gema - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 12, pp. 1-18
In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are directly related to the actual realization of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533166
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Retirement patterns of couples in Europe
Hospido, Laura; Zamarro, Gema - 2014
In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are directly related to the actual realization of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239271
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Field-of-study homogamy
Bičáková, Alena; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2016
This paper reports evidence on the strong tendency of the college educated to match with partners who graduated in the same field of study – a dimension of assortative matching that has been overlooked thus far. We employ Labor Force Survey data covering most EU countries to measure the extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455755