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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law

Schaubert, Marianna - 2018

This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for...

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Parental separation and well-being of youths

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between...

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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...

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A spouse and a house are all we need? : housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle

Rock, Bram de; Kovaleva, Mariia; Potoms, Tom - 2023

To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using...

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Sanitation and marriage markets in India : evidence from the total sanitation campaign

Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan P.; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2021

We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage market outcomes for both men and women. To...

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How families matter for understanding economic inequality

Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...

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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014

In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. … labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …

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Family economics writ large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

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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The impact of immigration on the employment dynamics of European regions

Edo, Anthony; Özgüzel, Cem - 2023

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Employment effects of offshoring, technological change and migration in a group of Western European economies : impact on different occupations

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023

occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … the exception of manual workers), while robotisation in manufacturing showed strongly negative impacts on the employment … for productivity and demand effects - and this is mostly accounted for by immigration from low- to medium-income source …

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