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Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market...
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children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation … they can achieve greater survivorship and enhanced genetic fitness. The explanation lies in the free riding behavior that … characterizes the interactions between competing fathers in the same promiscuous pair grouping. Kin ties could also be related to …
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become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction … paths diverge around five years before mothers' first birth, even after adjusting for differences in observables. In our …
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Die vorliegende Arbeit soll einen Beitrag zur Klärung der Frage leisten, ob das Ehegattensplitting, wie in vielen Arbeiten behauptet, einen negativen Einfluss auf das Arbeitsverhalten verheirateter Frauen hat. Hierzu kommt für Deutschland erstmals ein von Quasi-Experimenten inspirierter Ansatz...
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individuals aged between 18 and 49, nine percent have minor children living outside Germany, whereas twelve percent have a husband …
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Familie hat für das persönliche Wohlbefinden eine große Bedeutung - das gilt vor allem für Geflüchtete, deren Familienmitglieder oftmals im Herkunftsland zurückbleiben. Dieser Bericht nimmt die Familienstruktur von Geflüchteten, die zwischen Januar 2013 und Januar 2016 nach Deutschland...
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In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …
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The present study investigates the relationship between the number of children in the household and mothers and fathers … children in the household and the propensity of these non-entrepreneurs to become and remain business owners from 2005 to 2016 …. For both sexes, the results show a positive and linear relationship between the number of children at home and business …
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This paper discusses methodological principles for social evaluation of tax systems and tax reforms when concern is primarily turned to who gains and who loses. The discussion is followed by an empirical analysis based on Italian household data. Using a household microeconometric labor supply...
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A crucial issue in efficiency-equality evaluations of tax reforms resides in the possibility that the level as well as the distribution of welfare may change, where the household-specific measures of welfare capture the value of income as well as the value of leisure. A better-designed...
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