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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 … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

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Marriage and the City

Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2021

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a …

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Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes

Arni, Patrick; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2018

How effective are effort targets? This paper provides novel evidence on the effects of job search requirements on effort provision and labor market outcomes. Based on large-scale register data, we estimate the returns to required job search effort, instrumenting individual requirements with...

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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...

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Part-time unemployment and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2011

A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper develops a search and matching model to study the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an...

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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made unemployment insurance more generous by changing,...

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Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor market experience to unemployment benefits after a...

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The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences

Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020

Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale administrative data, I exploit exogenous variation in unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find...

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Unemployment and Tax Design

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2021

This paper studies optimal income taxation in an environment where matching frictions generate a trade-off for workers between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment...

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