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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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Pill Power : The Prequel

Edlund, Lena - 2011

Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that the availability of the contraceptive Pill to unmarried minors was instrumental for women's professional advancements, by allowing marriage to be postponed, they argued. However, with low cost and effective birth control, it is not...

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Taxing Women : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Guner, Nezih - 2011

Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women at a lower rate than men. Relative to the current system of taxation, setting a proportional tax...

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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia F. - 2012

This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009

While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...

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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses

Schøne, Pål - 2020

We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction industry, and their wives. We use license requirements to divide workers into two groups who are more...

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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples : Theory and Evidence

Francesconi, Marco - 2008

financial incentives of the reform had negligible effects on a wide range of married mothers' decisions, such as eligible … supply and earnings. Mothers married to low-income men showed larger responses in employment, especially if they had younger …

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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Kim, Jungho - 2007

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in...

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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples

Papps, Kerry L. - 2006

This paper presents a model of lifetime utility maximisation in which expectations of future marital transitions play a role in the determination of work hours. Married people with spouses who earn more are predicted to devote additional time to the labour market when they are confronted with a...

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The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment : Europe Over the Great Recession

Dolado, Juan Jose - 2017

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is...

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