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marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …
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market production in support of a family business, that is, unreported family workers. These individuals are not coded in the … other relatives in their household. Unreported family workers are classified into four categories: farm, merchant, craft … unreported family workers in the male augmented labor force participation rate is relatively small. …
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older) who were likely providing informal and unenumerated labor for market production in support of a family business, that … is, unreported family workers. These individuals are identified as not having a reported occupation, but are likely to be … working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
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Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
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A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable … predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family …
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respect to their income than singles. This is a novel result that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self …
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This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … migration. The positive correlation between sibship size and migration disappears when endogeneity of family size is addressed … across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …
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bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …
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children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …
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This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent - grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 European countries and Israel from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE). We show that maternal grandparents look after grandchildren and provide financial or...
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