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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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Marriage and subjective well-being in Ghana
Addai, Isaac; Opoku-Agyeman, Chris; Amanfu, Sarah K. - In: African review of economics & finance : AREF : (a … 7 (2015) 1, pp. 53-79
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777808
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779678
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Does income taxation affect partners’ household chores?
Soest, Arthur van; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003992241
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The consequences of own and spousal disability on labor market outcomes and subjective well-being : evidence from Germany
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006. I find that both men and women reduce … individual disability. The life-satisfaction of women, but not of men, is reduced considerably by their partners’ disability. The …
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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen Falko - 2012
single households. In the model, labor supply of married women reacts positively and relatively strongly to minimum wages …, in our baseline experiments, average labor supply of married women increases by 3-5%, whereas hours supplied by married …
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Relative labor supply in intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-27
and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages …
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408835