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Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …
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a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men. … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …
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The issues of persistence in the observed labour market status of men are investigated using the British Household …
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. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists …. Moreover, except for Italy, they point to a persisting problem of occupational and sectoral segregation between men working …
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Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … or individual self-reports. In contrast to these disease based measures, health of American men appears to be superior to …
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hours of work are relatively inelastic for men, but are a little more responsive for married women and lone mothers. On the … from a discrete participation model for both married and single men based on the numerous reforms over the past two decades … in the UK. We find that the participation of low education men is somewhat more responsive to incentives than previously …
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took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital … bargaining power of husbands and wives. We show that men face a tradeoff between the rights they want for their own wives (namely …
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the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …
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The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market will devote more time to home production. In reality,...
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