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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children
Ananat, Elizabeth; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746404
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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children
Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746483
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Gender discrimination and growth: theory and evidence from India
Esteve-Volart, Berta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Gender inequality is an acute and persistent problem, especially in developing countries. This paper argues that gender discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model gender discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor market or as the exclusion of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071265
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Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126156
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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior
González, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071224
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More on Marriage, Fertility, and the Distribution of Income.
Greenwood, J.; Guner, N.; Knkwles, J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on An overlapping generations model of marriage, fertility and nature of the is … captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. They … are free to accept or reject marriage proposals. Married agents make their decisions through bargaining about work, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625912
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Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption
Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746029
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Is the medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK
Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan; Commander, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending country because the incentives it creates for training increase that country¿s supply of skilled labour. To work, this hypothesis requires that the degree of screening of migrants by the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071143
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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus
Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206867
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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745154