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The impact of early marriage on women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …
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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286158
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Immigration and the health of older natives in Western Europe
Escarce, José J.; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2018
Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
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Trick or treat? : the Brexit effect on immigrants' wellbeing in the UK
Rienzo, Cinzia - 2020
This paper is the first attempt to analyse the effect of the Brexit Referendum results on subjective well-being of immigrants living in the UK. Using the national representative UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) data and adopting a difference-in-differences estimates, we...
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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...
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Marriage market signals and homeownership for the never married
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018
There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...
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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries show substantial bonuses for married couples and four...
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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
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