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of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively … participation and their wages have risen substantially. Our results suggest that there are gender-specific differences, e.g. female … breadwinner-couples have a substantially higher risk of divorce than male breadwinner-couples. In contrast, the equal division …
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divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …
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We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
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evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …
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results showstriking gender differences in the relationship between reciprocity and taste for representation. These … differences can be partially explained by gender-specific differences in the average degree of labor force attachment. …
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, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual …
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and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …
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looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
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