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Deciding Who Works Where – An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia
Basilio, Leilanie - 2009
The paper examines whether there is an asymmetry in the distribution of market work and domestic work within families in Australia, and to what extent differences in earnings capacities of spouses can account for the division of labor. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca Tobit-type decomposition, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265784
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Less alimony after divorce: Spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
expected income effect. Neither do our results reveal that leisure is shifted from women to men as a response to the changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746151
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Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264757
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Why Are More Boys Born During War? - Evidence from Germany at Mid Century
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2009
causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral responses to the dramatically changed marriage market conditions for … women and men that were induced by war-related declines in adult sex ratios. Based on county-level census data for the … changes in adult and off spring sex ratios. Our results suggest that war-induced shortfalls of men significantly increased the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265812
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Gender Differences in the Intergenerational Earnings Mobility of Second-Generation Migrants
Flake, Regina - 2011
mobility - neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287410
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Gender Differences in the Intergenerational Earnings Mobility of Second-Generation Migrants
Flake, Regina - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
mobility – neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321173
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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - 2014
Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the … - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332850
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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the … - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860287
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Deciding Who Works Where – An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia
Basilio, Leilanie - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
The paper examines whether there is an asymmetry in the distribution of market work and domestic work within families in Australia, and to what extent differences in earnings capacities of spouses can account for the division of labor. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca Tobit-type decomposition, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003768
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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007
This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein,upon arrival,an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264696