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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … income inequality. …

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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

Cosar, Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

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Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort

Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...

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The Cash Opportunity of Childbearing: An Approach Using British Data

Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...

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Participation in Paid Work: Multiple Regression Analysis of the Women and Employment Survey

Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

Models to explain the chances of economic activity, employment and full-time work in a national cross-section of British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status differentials are minor once the presence of dependent children...

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