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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and … manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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Marriage and Employment Participation with Wage Bargaining in Search Equilibrium
Bonilla, Roberto - 2017
The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and marriage markets is numerous. Despite this, the …-Coles (1997) do not apply for a marriage market linked to this labor market and discuss the consequences of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951689
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The Intergenerational Transfer of the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2021
Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor force attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in labor force...
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Friday the 13th : The Empirics of Bad Luck
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2014
marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044603
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Nobody Home : The Effect of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Long-Term Child Outcomes
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - 2021
We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal data from Norway covering the entire Norwegian population between the years 1970 to 2007. The data allows us to match all family members and to measure maternal labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315675
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981284
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Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China
Tang, Heiwai - 2017
We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to employ proportionally more women and appoint female...
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