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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...
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A spouse and a house are all we need? : housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle
Rock, Bram de; Kovaleva, Mariia; Potoms, Tom - 2023
To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using...
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Sanitation and marriage markets in India : evidence from the total sanitation campaign
Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan P.; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2021
We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage market outcomes for both men and women. To...
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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women
Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023
This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...
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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. … labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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Employment effects of offshoring, technological change and migration in a group of Western European economies : impact on different occupations
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023
occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … the exception of manual workers), while robotisation in manufacturing showed strongly negative impacts on the employment … for productivity and demand effects - and this is mostly accounted for by immigration from low- to medium-income source …
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What happens to the careers of European workers when immigrants "take their jobs"?
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by …
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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020
services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual … negative employment effect than does immigration. Our results also identify an important (labour demand) elasticity-channel of … impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in …
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