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International family migration and the dual-earner model
Munk, Martin D.; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615817
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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011
households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388372
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International migration of couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388635
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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001
Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398790
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Do family values shape the pace to return to work after childbirth?
Borrell-Porta, Mireia - 2015
This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the … to work of mothers who hold different family values. Using a regression discontinuity design and an epidemiological … approach to family values I find that although the policy has substantially increased the pace to return to work of mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476674
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What happens to the husband's retirement decision when the wife's retirement incentives change?
Selin, Håkan - 2012 - This version: 2012-03-22
Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses’ retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515735
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 2012
older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. -- childcare ; labor … supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518242
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387655
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024392
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Culture of origin, parenting, and household labor supply
Brilli, Ylenia; Moriconi, Simone - 2024
parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014543831