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The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …
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nature of this immigration, but have not analysed the impacts on the economy. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical … analysis of the impact of illegal immigration on the economy of the small open type, like that of Greece. The theoretical … analysis uses a small stylised model to show that there is no unequivocal case for illegal immigration to lead to declines in …
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workers and 43% of the gap for women. An analysis of undocumented immigrants legalized after the 1986 U.S. immigration policy …
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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of immigration and its subsequent effect on ethnic diversity in a model … individuals and endogenous levels of immigration and assimilation. In the model, an increase in ethnic diversity reduces the … spillovers effect for the majority. Nonetheless, immigration can be welfare improving for the majority ethnic group even if it …
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This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, an understudied outcome in the literature. We use a … prevented shifts between occupations. Finally, we find no effects of immigration on the workplace safety of immigrants. These … results add a previously unexplored dimension to the immigration debate that should be taken into account when evaluating the …
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sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Self-employed immigrants are found to do …
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Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women and married people make up for a large fraction of the population and of labor market participants, total hours worked, and total earnings. For the most part, macroeconomists have...
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employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …
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Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. We find conditions under which a stable...
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