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Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …
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This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …
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two-thirds of the world's population with access to same-sex marriage on three continents. Same-sex couples are less …
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paper explores the degree to which the role of education and marriage in women's labor supply decisions also changed over …
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We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
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We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary education in Swedish...
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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We estimate the effects of initial labour market entry conditions on a range of subsequent job outcomes for men and women who entered the British labour market between 1991 and 2009, using data from the British Household Panel Survey and its successor Understanding Society. We find that the...
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supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …
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