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Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in Search Equilibrium : Theory and Empirical Test

Bonilla, Roberto - 2017

frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets, making use of what we label constrained job search. The optimal … characterised by beauty premium and/or marriage premium. Predicted profiles of premia allow for potential falsification tests and …

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The Effect of Education on Marital Status and Partner Characteristics : Evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2021

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...

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Intra-Household Work Timing : The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris van - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this study identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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The Patterns of Inter-Firm and Inter-Industry Knowledge Flows in the Netherlands

Plasmans, Joseph; Lukach, Ruslan - 2021

the Netherlands by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The study establishes different patterns of … organizations in the Netherlands during 1993-2006. We compare the patterns of knowledge utilization (represented by backward patent … Netherlands …

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Age, Wage and Productivity

van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2021

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...

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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe : A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Ochel, Wolfgang; Hülsewig, Anja - 2021

by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …

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Firm Level Productivity Under Imperfect Competition in Output and Labor Markets

Amoroso, Sara - 2010

This article examines the role of the interaction between product market and labor market imperfections in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach, allowing for the possibility that wages are...

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