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How do marital status, wage rates, and work commitment interact?
Ahituv, Avner (contributor);  … - 2005
earnings reinforce each other over time. Unmarried men who appear unable to support a family because of low current earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039638
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...
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Factor shares, the price markup, and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor
Raurich-Puigdevall, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla i … - 2011
In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these assumptions, proposes a time-series calculation of the...
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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates
Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006
der Arbeit web site …
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Marital instability in the United States : trends, driving forces, and implications for children
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon Jeong - 2017
This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of divorce, with a focus on U.S. studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the divorce rate and the widening gap in marital instability by socioeconomic status. We review the role of age at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607431
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Schooling, family background, and adoption : is it nature or is it nurture?
Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...
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Schooling, family background, and adoption : does family income matter?
Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …
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Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020
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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Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019
This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...
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The changing family structure of american children with unauthorized parents
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2017
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone, most of them involving fathers and heads of household. We exploit the geographic and temporal variation in intensified enforcement to gauge its impact on children's propensity to live...
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