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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes - 2004

The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...

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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …

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Living arrangements in Western Europe: does cultural origin matter?

Giuliano, Paola - 2006

Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...

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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach

Parker, Simon C. - 2005

This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...

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Parental marital disruption, family type, and transfers to disabled elderly parents

Pezzin, Liliana E.; Pollak, Robert A.; Steinberg … - 2008

This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time … and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital … changes are weakening the traditional role of the family as a support network. Because more recent cohorts of elderly persons …

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International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US

Rendón, Sílvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2007

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of the migration process....

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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...

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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...

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Globalization, brain drain and development

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...

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Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012

child care availability, immigrants can affect family, as well as individual, income distribution. We review research …

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