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Are immigrants more left-leaning than natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2022

We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...

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Automation and low-skill labor

Mann, Katja; Pozzoli, Dario - 2022

Changes in the supply of low-skill labor may affect robot adoption by firms. We test this hypothesis by exploiting an exogenous increase in the local labor supply induced by a large influx of immigrants into Danish municipalities. Using the Danish employer-employee matched dataset over the...

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Are immigrants more left wing than natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2023

We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to children of citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a left-right scale based on the ideological and policy...

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From pink-collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2020

The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 led to a massive migration wave from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel. We document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of immigrants, and horizontally through neighborhood and...

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Daughters, savings and household finances

Tani, Massimiliano; Wen, Xin; Cheng, Zhiming - 2023

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is associated with a lower saving rate. This is...

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Marital sorting, household inequality and selection

Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2023

distribution of wages which accounts for the spouses' employment decisions. We find that income inequality has increased for these …

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Couples and gender inequality

Larsen, Kristian - 2023

This study shows that entering into a cohabiting partnership leads to long lasting earnings losses for women, even after accounting for the impact of child penalties. While 2 ⁄3 of the total effect of cohabitation is due to partnered women having higher fertility than unpartnered women, an...

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Drivers of Change : How Intra-household Preferences Shape Employment Responses to Gender Reform

Abou Daher, Chaza; Field, Erica Marie; Swanson, Kendal M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …

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Frontier history and gender norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - 2024

home. Frontier women were less likely to report “gainful employment,” but among those who did, relatively more had high …

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Stuck in a marriage : labor market shocks, divorce and intra-household reallocation

Kureishi, Wataru; Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah; … - 2025

Families play an important role in providing insurance against adverse shocks, but little is known about how shocks affect the family structure itself. We study the impact of a labor market shock on divorce and intra-household allocation of resources, exploiting a naturalexperimental earthquake...

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