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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...
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Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes
Lundberg, Shelly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …
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Work and Family: Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
Choi, Hyung-Jai; Joesch, Jutta M.; Lundberg, Shelly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …
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Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power
Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
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Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce: Evidence from German Data
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker’s theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the...
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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Bender, Keith A.; Habermalz, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...
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Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia
Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...
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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education: New Evidence from Australia
Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...
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