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The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on the Situation of Women in the Household: the case of a pension reform in Argentina

Berniell, Inés; de la Mata, Dolores; Machado, Matilde Pinto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

shock significantly increased the probability of divorce/separation among senior women by 19%. Our results show that …

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Budget Incidence of Immigration into Switzerland: A Cross-Section Analysis of the Public Transfer System

Straubhaar, Thomas; Weber, René - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper deals with the distributional effects of immigration into Switzerland. Focusing on the government budget, it explores empirically whether resident foreigners are a burden or a benefit to the Swiss public transfer system. The estimation is based on the 1990 Consumer Survey by the Swiss...

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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus, with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...

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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to …

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Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics

Edlund, Lena Cecilia; Haider, Laila; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Political survey data for nine West European countries show that women have become increasingly left-wing compared to men, and that this trend is positively correlated with the decline in marriage in these countries. This pattern is mirrored in German longitudinal data (GSOEP), where transitions...

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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. We show that married individuals have a higher propensity to invest in...

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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital … affected positively by per capita income and negatively by the presence of Catholicism and the availability of divorce, while …

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'I Vont To Be Alone' Transitions to Independent Living, Marriage and Divorce Among Young Americans

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We investigate the importance of economic factors in young Americans’ decisions to form and dissolve households. We adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in...

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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...

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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a … unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life …-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …

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