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Is there a 'marriage premium' for gay men?

Zavodny, Madeline (contributor) - 2007

It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage premium in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Some research also finds that cohabiting men earn more than men not living with a female partner. This study uses data from the General...

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The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions

Stark, Oded; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019

We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more aggressive (that is, riskier) manner. Assuming that...

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Immigration, working conditions, and compensating differentials

Sparber, Chad; Zavodny, Madeline - 2020

hold "worse" jobs than U.S. natives, the impact of immigration on U.S. natives' working conditions has received little … attention. This study examines how immigration affected U.S. natives' occupational exposure to workplace hazards and the return … to such exposure over 1990 to 2018. The results indicate that immigration causes less-educated U.S. natives' exposure to …

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The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019

We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...

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Immigrants in risky occupations

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012

This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a more detailed discussion of the empirical evidence on the subject, which reaches several...

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Employer sanctions: a policy with a pitfall?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021

country's labor market: full employment, voluntary unemployment, and minimal wage in combination with involuntary unemployment …, which impedes the firm's productivity. The impact on the wages and / or employment of the native laborers depends on the …

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Risk-laden migration as a response to relative deprivation : a hypothesis

Stark, Oded - 2023

Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen as a push factor in migration, and the level of risk involved in migration has been understood...

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The minimum wage and Latino workers

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2010

affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among … lead to higher hourly earnings among people who are employed but lower employment rates. Data from the Current Population … affected by minimum wage laws than other low-education natives, and their employment rates appear to increase when the minimum …

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