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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard
Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022
We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to the public. Divorce is one of the major events that obliges the … guarantor to repay outstanding residual debt after (foreclosure) sale. We argue in this paper that divorce is endogenous to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329569
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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard
Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022
We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to the public. Divorce is one of the major events that obliges the … guarantor to repay outstanding residual debt after (foreclosure) sale. We argue in this paper that divorce is endogenous to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332708
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Women's Time Allocation to Child Care : Determinants and Consequences
Miller, Paul W.; Mulvey, Charles - 2010
The time women allocate to child care varies appreciably according to personal and labour market characteristics. Of particular note is the finding that better educated women spend more time in most forms of child care activities than their less well educated counterparts. This link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154346
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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
of small children and this is true both for weekdays and weekends. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377363
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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2005
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267537
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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2005
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115142
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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318255
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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763562
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The effect of children on specialization and coordination of partners’ activities
Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children … impact of children on these links, and the effects these factors have on specialization in time use. Children are shown to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940500
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532