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In sickness and in health? : comorbidity in older couples
Booker, Cara L.; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2013 - This version: December 5, 2013
We investigate the nature and origin of comorbidity, defined as the tendency of members of marital couples to display correlated patterns of ill-health in later life. In the absence of long-term prospective data on couples, we use long-range recall data from the pan-European SHARELife survey and...
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Grandmothers' labor supply
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017
The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...
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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014
In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241304
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Clash of career and family : fertility decisions after job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2007
reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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