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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422608
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Common law marriage and male/female convergence in labor supply and time use
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014
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 …
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Employer-provided health insurance and labor supply of married women
Cebi, Merve; Wang, Chunbei - In: Eastern economic journal 39 (2013) 4, pp. 493-510
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Why are married men working so much? : an aggregate analysis of intra-household bargaining and labour supply
Knowles, John - In: The review of economic studies 80 (2013) 3, pp. 1055-1085
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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
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 …
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The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021
Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....
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The great transition : Kuznets facts for family-economists
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Marto, Ricardo - 2021
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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad; Quinto, Alicia de - 2021
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254456
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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …
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