routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …

in married women’s employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven …

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 …

motherhood it does not significantly change women's attitudes. These results suggest that exogenous changes in employment during …Does employment during motherhood change peoples preferences? We study whether the experience of employment during … motherhood exerts an effect on attitudes towards gender norms, and more specifically, attitudes towards the impact of women …

grandmothers’ cohort and mothers’ likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women … the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … norm variable is taken from a question on whether “men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce” and …

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend … of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before. In contrast, the amount of time men devote to housework …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under …

-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners’ employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women’s labor market choices and outcomes … Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using …