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Characteristics of couples on or about their wedding day and characteristics of weddings have been shown to predict marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study...
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consistent with a model of limited commitment in which a shock to household resources can alter bargaining power. We discuss the …
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This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children population in the household then examine the...
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This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent - which is known from other contexts - is...
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This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...
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Time-inconsistent, present-biased agents may hold commitment assets hoping to keep their current and future present … bias in check. Paternalistic governments, in an effort to help such people, routinely offer commitment machinery such as … commitment assets recognizes a trade-off: while use of commitment technologies thwarts deviation from pre-selected paths, they …
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's relative commitment value would have heterogenous effects by asset-holding, both of which appear to hold in US data. …
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preferences of principal and agent are exogenously aligned. As application, the commitment effect of empowerment is considered … without task commitment and other behavioral effects the principal might forgo delegation though being efficient. …
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We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish … training is associated with the affective commitment of their employees and on the other hand how individual participation in … further training relates to affective commitment. Using the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which is a longitudinally linked …
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Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor …
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