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The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on the Situation of Women in the Household: the case of a pension reform in Argentina

Berniell, Inés; de la Mata, Dolores; Machado, Matilde Pinto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

shock significantly increased the probability of divorce/separation among senior women by 19%. Our results show that …

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Reconciling income mobility and welfare persistence

Fan, Elliott; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

In this paper, we provide evidence that reconciles the co-existence of high income mobility among people on low income and patterns of high persistence on income support among people whose income from government payments is low – both phenomena have been founded in different Australian...

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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus, with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...

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Budget Incidence of Immigration into Switzerland: A Cross-Section Analysis of the Public Transfer System

Straubhaar, Thomas; Weber, René - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper deals with the distributional effects of immigration into Switzerland. Focusing on the government budget, it explores empirically whether resident foreigners are a burden or a benefit to the Swiss public transfer system. The estimation is based on the 1990 Consumer Survey by the Swiss...

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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to …

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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a … unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life …-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …

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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...

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Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By … to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families, parents with two children of the same sex are 1.7 percentage …

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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

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Love and Taxes - and Matching Institutions

Konrad, Kai A.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

substitute for redistribution, so that optimal redistribution is reduced. We also introduce a divorce option. Redistributive …

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