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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018
Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...
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Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work : More Evidence that Marriage Markets Matter
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2017
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955043
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Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2015
An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over multi-dimensional characteristics. Importantly, the model suggests specific testable assumptions that allow researchers to uncover marginal rates of substitution (MRS) between...
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The Effects of Marriage on Couples' Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777458
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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples
Papps, Kerry L. - 2006
should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …
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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Raaum, Oddbjorn - 2007
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844815
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Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander - 2018
European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910734
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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Daniele; Salisbury, Laura; … - 2021
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign …
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