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Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability
Anderberg, Dan - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
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Marriage and Divorce : The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Schulz, Bastian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824595
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Marriage Premium with Productivity Heterogeneity
Bonilla, Roberto - 2019
Using an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets, we establish the existence of male marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find supporting evidence using Chinese data
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861383
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Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2008
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on … low skilled employment, provided that fiscal redistribution is not too intense and the elasticity between high and low …
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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266040
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …
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Social norms, cognitive dissonance and the timing of marriage
Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia - 2007
We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage has been favoured by strongly felt social norms, and...
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On the causes and consequences of divorce
Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia; Mammini, Claudio - 2008
In most Western economies, the flourishing of the Welfare State has coincided with a decline of the role of the family: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of the informal safety net in a period when social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264397
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How Chicagoan are Gary Becker's economic models of marriage?
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2009
This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting...
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Fertility, female labor supply, and family policy
Fehr, Hans; Ujhelyiova, Daniela - 2011
splitting increase fertility but reduce female employment. Second, increasing tax revenues due to the introduction of individual … taxation would increase female employment but reduce fertility. Third, revenue neutral policies such as a reform of the benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274868