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The Aggregate Implications of Gender and Marriage

Borella, Margherita - 2016

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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Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

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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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

Kojima, Fuhito - 2010

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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Family Economics Writ Large

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017

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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A Nation of Immigrants : Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2013

During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work on this era finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but experienced rapid convergence over time. In...

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

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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Economic Impacts of Immigration : A Survey

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2011

This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the … magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of … immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and concomitant effects for natives. The paper then turns to immigration …

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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

Bertrand, Marianne - 2013

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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Technology and the Changing Family : a Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2012

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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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian - 2012

capital selectivity of Mexican intermarriage generates corresponding differences in the employment and earnings of Mexican … between the education, English proficiency, employment, and earnings of Mexican-American parents and the chances that their …

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