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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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A Bayesian approach to misclassified binary response : female employment and intimate partner violence in urban India
Chin, Yoo-Mi; Song, Joon Jin; Stamey, James D. - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 20, pp. 1439-1442
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Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women
Olivetti, Claudia - 2016
employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …
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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
Kojima, Fuhito - 2010
Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. We find conditions under which a stable...
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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 …
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Estimating labour supply and time allocation by married Japanese men and unmarried Japanese women
Yamada, Ken - In: Applied economics letters 15 (2008) 7/9, pp. 659-666
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Long-term consequences of birth in an "unlucky" year : evidence from Japanese women born 1966
Shimizutani, Satoshi; Yamada, Hiroyuki - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 16/18, pp. 1174-1178
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
Bertrand, Marianne - 2013
We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage...
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Technology and the Changing Family : a Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2012
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally, assortative mating has risen; i.e., people are more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112844
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The Impact of Student Debt on Education, Career, and Marriage Choices of Female Lawyers
Sieg, Holger - 2017
insights into the design of public policies that aim to increase public sector employment. We show that it is possible to …
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