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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men

Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...

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Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes : Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar

Mosca, Irene - 2017

Bar" then became mothers and never returned to work, or returned only after several years. Regression analysis is used to … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so.It is found that the …

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Older Mothers' Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest is Empty

d'Albis, Hippolyte; Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, Elena - 2022

and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the … nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family … and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest …

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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status : Evidence from North Indian Villages

Bhattacharya, Manasi - 2009

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...

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Female Labour Supply and Spousal Education

Papps, Kerry L. - 2010

Three hypotheses are given to explain why a married woman's work hours might be related to her husband's education, even controlling for his wage rate. Data for a single cohort of women from the NLSY 1979 suggest that women's work hours are positively related to spousal education at the time of...

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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...

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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Fernández, Raquel - 2011

Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...

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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2011

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...

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Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women

Eckstein, Zvi - 2012

Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...

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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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