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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country

Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...

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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as well...

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Modest expectations: Causes and effects of migration on migrant households in source countries

Hagen-Zanker, Jessica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This research, mainly looking at Albania and Moldova, investigates the reasons why people migrate internationally and send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and how it affects the relationship between family...

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Female Labour Supply and intergenerational preference formation: Evidence for Mexico

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Velez, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Using a national representative sample for Mexico, we analyse the effect of a husband having a working mother on the probability that he has a working wife. Our results show that labour force participation by a husband’s mother increases the probability of the labour force participation of his...

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Earnings differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals and the effects of anti-discriminatory laws: equal but still unmarried

Christafore, David; Leguizamon, Sebastian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

this gap over time. Our results suggest that although the earnings differential may be due to the marriage premium, anti …

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Concerning domestic violence against women, is there a threshold for empowerment? The cases of tho areas in Mexico

Lozano-Cortés, Maribel; Cabrera-Castellanos, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A rural town (Morelos) and another urban (Cancun) in the state of Quintana Roo, México, have been analyzed, and paradoxically we discovered that women suffer higher degrees of violence by their partners in the environment with a higher level of female empowerment, measured through different...

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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

because of a change in the influence of the traditional marriage system. …

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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives

Gelber, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...

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How Do Female Spouses’ Political Interests Affect Male Spouses’ Views About a Women’s Issue?

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper explored how the degree of female spouses’ political interest affects male spouses’ views about women’s empowerment, using individual level data in Japan. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects, results showed that males were likely to consider women’s...

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Sex selection and gender balance

Bhaskar, V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We model sex selection and the equilibrium sex ratio, when parents care about their child's marriage prospects. With … intrinsic son preference, selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient, due to a marriage market congestion … to population growth causing an excess supply of women on the marriage market, selection may improve welfare. Empirically …

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