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Union formation, marriage and first birth: Convergence across cohorts in Austria, Hungary, Northern Italy and Slovenia?
Mamolo, Marija - 2006
The interplay between changes of different demographic determinants may trigger or prevent convergence of various dimensions of demographic behaviour both within and between countries of western and Eastern Europe. We investigate whether convergence or divergence dynamics prevail across cohorts...
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Marriage and other risky assets: a portfolio approach
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - 2009
marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling … attributed to the gradual erosion of the perception of marriage as a sort of safe asset. Our results therefore suggest that the …
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480422
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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
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
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The decision of whether to have a child: Does couple disagreement matter?
Testa, Maria Rita; Cavalli, Laura; Rosina, Alessandro - 2012
Most of the international studies on fertility are based on a female perspective. A major difficulty in couple-level research is the need for high-quality data that includes information on both partners. Using couple data from a longitudinal study conducted in Italy [2003-2007], a country with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352597
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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
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268955
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In-work benefits for married couples: An ex-ante evaluation of EITC and WTC policies in Italy
De Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
This paper investigates labor supply and redistributive effects of in-work benefits for Italian married couples using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider two in-work benefit schemes following the key principles of the Earned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287609
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Migration at work: Aspirations, imaginaries & structures of mobility
Seiger, Fiona-Katharina (contributor);  … - 2020
Migration and Labour Mobility The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived and the imaginaries held by both employers and regulating authorities in...
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Dependencies between European stock markets when price changes are unusually large
Schich, Sebastian T. - 2002
data on stock market indices for Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Italy from 1973 to 2001 … pair considered. For example, stock markets in the Netherlands and France are more closely and those in the United Kingdom … Niederlande und Italien von 1973 bis 2001. Abhängigkeit wird dabei gemessen anhand der bedingten Wahrscheinlichkeit einer …
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A disaggregated framework for the analysis of structural developments in public finances
Kremer, Jana; Braz, Cláudia Rodrigues; Brosens, Teunis; … - 2006
standardised to be used in multi-country studies. Here, it is applied to Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and … countries except Finland. In Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, both revenue and expenditure contributed to the deterioration …
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