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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 …
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This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
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This paper utilizes the 1968-2019 survey waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze the added worker effect for wives of husbands who lose their job through no fault of their own. Specifically, we focus on the potential changes to the added worker effect over time. For wives who were...
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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 …
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hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …
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investigate the relationship between marriage norms and the internal migrations of young men in age to marry. Based on empirical … ethnic groups without marriage payments. We interpret these results as evidence for the fact that men migrate to accumulate … strategies are implemented by the less advantaged males in their origin marriage market (latter-borns or from lower social class …
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This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to …
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Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...
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The rising cost of old-age dependency in Europe and elsewhere invariably leads to reforms aimed at raising the effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al. (2012), this paper asks how much older individuals could...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand...
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