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marriage market and sorting on the labor market. We first show that in theory, the nature of home production - whether partners …' hours are complements or substitutes - shapes marriage market sorting, labor market sorting and labor supply choices in … find that the home production complementarity - by strengthening positive marriage sorting and reducing the gender gap in …
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We analyze under which conditions intermarriage can be used as an indicator of tolerance, and whether such tolerant attitudes persisted in Germany during the last century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our...
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse...
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Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse's career or the other's. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men's earnings more...
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