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Business taxation and wages: Evidence from individual panel data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2012

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

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Business Taxation and Wages: Evidence from Individual Panel Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert - 2013

independence and potential mismatch. Cohabitation became an acceptable living arrangement for all groups, but cohabitation serves …

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The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants

Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in Australia. Using a triple-difference fixed effects approach we show that existing couples are more likely to make relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws...

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Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...

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Fertility differences between married and cohabiting couples: a switching regression analysis

Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - 2007

Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. We explore the factors that explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to quantify the contribution of different factors through a...

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What's the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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Education, matching and the allocative value of romance

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2005

Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Is marriage poisonous? - Are relationships taxing? An analysis of the male marital wage differential in Denmark

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina; Stratton, Leslie Sundt - 2005

relationship histories, consisting of about 35,000 young Danish men observed before and after their first marriage or cohabitation … during the years 1984-2001. Since the majority of young Danes cohabit before they marry, if they ever marry, cohabitation is … controlling for selectivity. The cohabitation premium is found to be of the same size as the marital wage premium. Our results …

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Are intra-household allocations policy neutral? Theory and empirical evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2011

different years and requiring different cohabitation length. We find that obtaining the right to petition for alimony led women …

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