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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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Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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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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whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state … employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage...
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Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally, assortative mating has risen; i.e., people are more likely to...
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insights into the design of public policies that aim to increase public sector employment. We show that it is possible to …
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