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Female Labor Supply and Divorce : New Evidence from Ireland
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or...
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Female Employment and Childcare
Hassani Nezhad, Lena - 2021
Childcare and women's employment decisions are intimately linked. I develop a dynamic model designed to analyse the effects of childcare subsidies on labour supply, fertility, marriage, and childcare decisions in a collective setting. In the model, children are a household good, produced by both...
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Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2014
Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more legal protection to household producers at the margin...
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The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply : Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; roff, jennifer - 2022
bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the …Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the … alimony is due, at least in part, to differences in their preferences and costs for children. The estimated effects are larger …
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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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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
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The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply
Kvist, Anette Primdal - 2011
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2020
Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants with that of their counterparts in all-native couples. We find that when intermarried to a native some immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent...
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Family Life in Lockdown
Biroli, Pietro - 2020
pandemic of spring 2020. A high percentage report disruptions in the patterns of family life, manifesting in new work patterns … intra-household cooperation. While the long-run consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on family life cannot be assessed at …
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