or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits …

this paper, we argue that the combined effect of mating on the marriage market and life time labor supply decisions can … early employment choices. To analyze this mechanism, we formulate a dynamic life cycle model of marriage and divorce, with … married women's employment and a 7% increase in marriage rate, comprised mainly of households in which the wife is married …

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …