We reassess the role of vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model. In the absence of …

In the standard macroeconomic search and matching model of the labor market, there is a tight link between the …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … experienced by men married to younger wives and women married to younger husbands within 6 to 10 years of marriage. A possible …

card. We examine the effect of those policy changes on Chinese immigrants' marriage market outcomes relative to other East … spousal chain migration occurred. We also find that highly educated Chinese immigrants benefited in the marriage market in …

This study explores the role of individual and local marriage market characteristics in whether recently wed U ….S. natives and immigrants whose spouse is a "marriage migrant" (someone who arrived in the U.S. the same year as the marriage … spouse characteristics associated with having a marriage-migrant spouse. There appear to be several advantages to marrying a …

show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of marriage regulation on the migratory behavior of individuals using … the history of the liberalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. Because the approval of same-sex marriage … allows homosexuals access to legal rights and social benefits, marriage becomes more attractive relative to singlehood or …

An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct … lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March 14 to May 8 2020, and the closure of marriage halls that lasted till … Pakistan where birth rates remain high, marriage is nearly universal, and almost all child- bearing takes place within marriage …

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …