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Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
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and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …
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against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence … that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands' mothers …
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among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …
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among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …
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Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...
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In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...
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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...
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