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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247997
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011
whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461519
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462666
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The Tax Treatment of Married Couples and the 1981 Tax Law
Feenberg, Daniel R. - 1982
Currently U.S. Federal Income Tax schedules do not maintain marriage neutrality, that is, tax liabilities depend upon marital status. This paper shows the extent and distribution of the departure from neutrality both under current law and the new (1981) tax act. The new tax law establishes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478239
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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernández, Raquel - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461149
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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alesina, Alberto - 2019
We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479516
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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016
Moriconi, Simone - 2018
In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480728
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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State
Cohen, Alon - 2009
Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463909
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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
Cohen, Alon - 2008
The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants under free migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464188
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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006
increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465924