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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor-saving technological progress in the household sector can...
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...
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Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time
Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
work declined discretely. The economy-wide drops in market work were reallocated solely to leisure and personal maintenance …
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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the …
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands
Bevelander, Pieter; Groeneveld, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Labor market participation is a central factor in the economic integration of migrants in their host country. Labor market integration of ethnic minority women is of special interest, as they may experience a double disadvantage: both as a woman and as a migrant. Since the late nineties this...
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Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...
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Housework Share between Partners: Experimental Evidence on Gender Identity
Auspurg, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from … preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere. …
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