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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and … explain the null or small impacts of immigration on native employment and wages. Instead, immigration appears to have affected …Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for …
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This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to … Earnings Structure Survey, we find evidence of immigrant employment and occupational assimilation significantly varying by … gender, origin and educational attainment. For instance, EU15 immigrants do not display an employment or occupational gap …
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We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total …
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We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e. the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show...
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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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In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...
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We present a model where divorcing spouses can choose to hire lawyers in their divorce process. Spouses encounter incentives as in the classical prisoners’ dilemma: Despite the zero sum nature of the game and the lawyers’ fees, each spouse has an incentive to hire a lawyer. We propose a...
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We model the bargaining process of parents over custody at the time of divorce. First we assume an institutional setting where only sole custody is available. In a second step we reform this institutional setting and introduce the possibility of joint custody. We show that some parents, who...
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