marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … relationship between marriage decisions and employment. ….S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the …

employment stability enjoyed by workers. This implies that in Italy women with highly protected and stable jobs find it easier to … pre-marital job characteristics and find that working without a contract has a negative effect on new mothers … force after becoming mothers. …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and …

available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage …