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Formal child care and family structure : theory and evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 62 (2016) 4, pp. 699-724

This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...

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Is marriage as good as a contract? (Law and economics)

Cigno, Alessandro - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 3, pp. 599-612

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, the parties may not reach an agreement. If they do, the agreement will be inefficient and give one party more utility than the...

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Partnership penalties and bonuses created by UK welfare programs

Anderberg, Dan; Kondylis, Florence; Walker, Ian - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 54 (2008) 1, pp. 1-21

This article explores how the UK welfare benefit system subsidise or penalise couples for living together as partners. A couple is said to face a "partnership bonus" ("penalty") if they can receive more (less) benefits when living as partners than when living separately. Using data on existing...

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Marriage : past, present, future?

Edlund, Lena - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 52 (2006) 4, pp. 621-639

If they existed, markets for sex and markets for children would share a common feature: women sell and men demand. No society allows the trade in children, instead we have marriage. This article discusses biological and legal aspects of reproduction, and their implications for gender roles and...

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The role of women in society : from preindustrial to modern times

Giuliano, Paola - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 33-52

The participation of women in agriculture and the role of women in society in the preindustrial period were remarkably different across ethnicities and strongly related to the type of agricultural technology adopted historically. The sexual division of labor was broadly associated to two...

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Vocational vs. general education and employment over the life cycle : new evidence from PIAAC

Hampf, Franziska; Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 63 (2017) 3, pp. 255-269

Competencies (PIAAC), we confirm such a trade-off over the life cycle in a difference-in-differences model that compares employment … rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of individuals with vocational compared to general …

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The road to egalitaria : sex differences in employment for parents of young children (Families, children and human capital formation)

Milligan, Kevin - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 257-279

In 1985, Gary Becker predicted employment and childcare sex gaps may ‘disappear or be greatly attenuated in the near … future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …

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Measuring immigration policies : preliminary evidence from IMPALA : migration policies

Beine, Michel; Burgoon, Brian B.; Crock, Mary; Gest, Justin - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 527-559

character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on a selection of data for six pilot countries between 1990 and 2008, we … document the variation of immigration policies across countries and over time. We focus on three specific dimensions: the … immigration policies, and aggregation procedures that allow for gauging the stringency of immigration regulations comparatively. …

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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy : migration policies

Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 638-672

The current European Union (EU) asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We show that the proposed system can go...

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The political economy of migration enforcement : domestic versus border control : migration policies

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 701-721

We study migration policy enforcement by an elected government. The policymaker faces uncertainty on the supply of migrants, but has more information than the public on its preferences and the extent and effectiveness of its enforcement activities. We show that a utilitarian government...

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