A segregation of the labour market into a family-friendly and a non-family friendly sector has the effect that women self-select into the sectors depending on institutional constraints, preferences for family-friendly working conditions and expected wage differences. We find that neglecting the...

Like the stock market, the human capital market consists of a wide range of assets, i.e. educations. Each young individual chooses the educational asset that matches his preferred combination of risk and return in terms of future income. A unique register-based data set with exact information on...

In an empirical microeconomic analysis that allows individual heterogeneity, we test four main <p> hypotheses from the recent macroeconomic literature on child labor: the substitution, subsistence, <p> capital market and parental education hypotheses. Using two rich Indian data sets, we find that the <p>...</p></p></p>

It is a stylized fact that marriage formation generally involves positive assortative matching <p> (PAM) on education. We test whether this is also the case for immigrants who tend to import <p> their spouses and potentially use education as an exchange mechanism. We find that only <p> women match...</p></p></p>