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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
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Mental health effects of same-sex marriage legalization
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2021
Sexual minorities have had worse than average mental health, which may have to do with actual or perceived discrimination. Same-sex marriage legalization (SSML) is a typical anti-discrimination policy removing marital restrictions for sexual minorities. We study how this legislation affected...
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Symbolism matters : the effect of same-sex marriage legalization on partnership stability
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Samesex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages...
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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard
Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022
We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to the public. Divorce is one of the major events that obliges the … guarantor to repay outstanding residual debt after (foreclosure) sale. We argue in this paper that divorce is endogenous to …
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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants,...
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Entrepreneurial couples
Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014
We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...
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Joint retirement of couples : evidence from a natural experiment
Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - 2015
We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives ́probability to retire within one year, using administrative micro panel data that cover the whole Dutch population. We employ an instrumental variable approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is...
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Diffusion of a social norm : tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812 - 1922
Poppel, Frans van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, Evelien - 2006
The emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands over the period 1812-1922 was strongly influenced by the social norm that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected in the emergence of the housewife among the lower...
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Sin city?
Gautier, Pieter; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007
Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay inthe city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who marriedoutside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …
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On the timing of marriage, cattle and weather shocks
Hoogeveen, Johannes; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, … - 2004
In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...
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