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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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Using data from the European Social Survey 2002-2020 covering immigrants in 25 European countries, this paper investigates the role of natives' gender norms in the labor market integration of female immigrants. To analyze the role of natives' gender norms, we exploit intertemporal,...
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This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...
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The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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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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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …
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This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … non-random location choices of immigrants and find that immigration has no adverse effects on regional unemployment rates … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians …
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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …
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