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Age-targeted income taxation, labor supply, and retirement

Gustafsson, Johan - 2021

for consumption/savings, labor supply/leisure, and retirement timing are then obtained by solving the model as a salvage …

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Intra-household work timing : the effect on joint activities and the demand for child care

Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011

that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …

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Families, public policies, and the labor market

Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V. - 2024

Over the past two decades, there have been significant changes in family dynamics and labor market interactions, with … shifts in fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, family labor supply, gender inequality, and childrearing. This chapter …

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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...

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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...

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Male wage inequality and characteristics of "early mover" marriages

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2022

Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently, male wage inequality should be associated with higher...

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Family bargaining and the gender gap in informal care

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2022

market wage and a lower bargaining power within the family with respect to sons. Consequently, they provide more informal …. Transfers within the family should be distorted in both types of families. …

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Till taxes keep us apart? : the impact of the marriage tax on the marriage rate

Myohl, Nadia - 2022

Married couples often face a different tax burden than cohabitating couples with the same income. I study the effect of joint income taxation of married couples on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and cohabitating couples vary considerably across cantons....

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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage market value of young men

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international 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...

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Birth order in the very long-run : estimating firstborn premiums between 1850 and 1940

Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2024

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

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