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America's settling down : How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 - 1930
Cvrcek, Tomas - 2010
The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …
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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
Kojima, Fuhito - 2010
Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. We find conditions under which a stable...
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2008
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011
whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions : The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions
Blau, Francine D. - 2000
Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is regressed on personal characteristics and MSA indicators,...
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Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting
Calvo, Paula A.; Lindenlaub, Ilse; Reynoso, Ana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We build a novel equilibrium model in which households' labor supply choices form the link between sorting on the 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...
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The Tax Treatment of Married Couples and the 1981 Tax Law
Feenberg, Daniel R. - 1982
Currently U.S. Federal Income Tax schedules do not maintain marriage neutrality, that is, tax liabilities depend upon marital status. This paper shows the extent and distribution of the departure from neutrality both under current law and the new (1981) tax act. The new tax law establishes a...
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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
Bertrand, Marianne - 2016
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some...
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Issues in the economics of immigration
Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2000
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Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?
Card, David - 2000
We use 1980 and 1990 Census data for 119 larger Metropolitan Statistical Areas to examine the effect of skill-group specific immigrant inflows on the location decisions of natives in the same skill group, and on the overall distribution of human capital. To control for unobserved skill-group...
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