. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … study the impact of two mechanisms on labor supply: (i) differences in marriage stability and (ii) differences in tax … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …

. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …

low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …

fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …

paper explores the degree to which the role of education and marriage in women's labor supply decisions also changed over …

We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, marginal employment, for unemployed workers. Marginal … employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is … who do not work. A priori it is not clear if those who work in marginal employment improve their labour market status, e …