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Age at Marriage and Marital Instability: Revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that …

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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...

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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions

Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...

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Why Are Married Men Working So Much? The Macroeconomics of Bargaining Between Spouses

Knowles, John A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The rise in per-capita labor over the last 30 years is difficult to explain in a standard macroeconomic model because rising wages of women should have lead to a large rise in husband’s leisure. This paper argues that home production and bargaining are both essential for understanding these...

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How Do Marital Status, Wage Rates, and Work Commitment Interact?

Ahituv, Avner; Lerman, Robert I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

How marriage interacts with men’s earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage...

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The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply

Kvist, Anette Primdal; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...

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Which Children Stabilize Marriage?

Bellido, Héctor; Molina, José Alberto; Solaz, Anne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …

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Does Custody Law Affect Family Behavior In and Out of Marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female … money transfer received by mothers after divorce. We interpret these results as evidence against Becker-Coase bargains and …

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