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home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for … selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of …
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that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …
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posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by … supportive of these hypotheses, with leisure time on non-work days in the US being particularly responsive to economic power. In … enjoy more leisure time than would be suggested by their economic power alone …
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link between optimal program design and the family context is strongest in low-educated populations …
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between market work, domestic work and leisure over the life-cycle. In order to map the life-cycle, we distinguish between … nine key cross-country comparable life stages according to age and family structure such as exiting parental home, union … where work-family balance policies are more effective and traditionally well-established …
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This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin … terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases …
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I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model I show that,...
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This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...
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Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …
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We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in 2006. Because of large differences in male income between China and HK, marriages of HK men with...
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