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Young women in cities
Koh, Yumi; Li, Jing; Wu, Yifan; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Hanzhe - 2023
Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish...
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The impact of early marriage on women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113827
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Social norms, labor market opportunities, and the marriage gap for skilled women
Bertrand, Marianne; Cortés, Patricia; Olivetti, Claudia; … - 2018
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810220
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...
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Changes in the Women's Labor Market and Education and Their Impacts on Marriage and Inequality : Evidence from Brazil
Firpo, Sergio - 2019
From 1992 to 2014, Brazil experienced a decline in income inequality along with a significant increase in schooling level, though the latter was more pronounced among women. Brazil also experienced a decline in returns to education, whereas an opposite trend was observed in several developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860177
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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923245
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Marriage and Divorce : The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Schulz, Bastian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...
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Intermarriage and the Labor Market Outcomes of Asian Women
Basu, Sukanya - 2016
Intermarriage with natives does not have a homogeneous impact on labor market outcomes across ethnic groups. Asian … women are compared with non-Asians. Both ordinary least squares and instrumental variables estimates of the intermarriage … once selection into marriage is controlled for. One possible explanation for the intermarriage penalty for Asians is an …
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Marriage and divorce under labor market uncertainty
Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019 - Preliminary version
This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...
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Endogenous Gender-Based Discrimination in a Model of Simultaneous Frictional Labor and Marriage Markets
Bonilla, Roberto; Masters, Adrian - 2023
Without assuming innate differences between genders, we show that the simultaneous interaction between frictional labor and marriage markets can result in a "gendered" equilibrium which is consistent with observed empirical regularities: men earn more than women, and their attachment to the...
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