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Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce : Evidence from German Data
Kraft, Kornelius - 2009
of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively … breadwinner-couples have a substantially higher risk of divorce than male breadwinner-couples. In contrast, the equal division …
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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...
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Less Alimony after Divorce : Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals …
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Cleaning in the Shadow of the Law? Bargaining, Marital Investment, and the Impact of Divorce Law on Husbands' Intra-Household Work
Roff, Jennifer - 2017
Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …
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Technology and the Changing Family : A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2015
educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen …. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …
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Household Behavior and the Marriage Market
Del Boca, Daniela - 2013
There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the possibility of using revealed preference data on household...
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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 using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented...
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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples
Papps, Kerry L. - 2006
to the labour market when they are confronted with a high likelihood of divorce and vice versa. Similarly, work hours …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This relationship holds both over an individual's life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779116
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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. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
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Marriage and Housework
Borra, Cristina - 2017
This paper provides insights into the welfare gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into...
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