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Not always for richer or poorer : the effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution

Brown, Heather W.; Battu, Harminder; Costa-Gomes, Miguel A. - 2013

There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...

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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012

immigration from Western European countries; and 2) how such immigrants fare in the British labour market in terms of employment …-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of immigration and the quality of the new immigrants. We focus on …

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Spatial distribution dynamics

Gerolimetto, Margherita; Magrini, Stefano - 2015 - Very preliminary version, this version: June 12, 2015

It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the literature adopting the regression approach is now fully aware that neglecting this feature may lead to inaccurate results and has therefore suggested a number of statistical tools...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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Do cross-border commuters suffer from education-job mismatch?

Huber, Peter - 2011

The migration literature shows that cross-border skill transfer is associated with a risk of increased job-education mismatch. This paper examines whether the problems of job-education mismatch often found among migrants also apply to cross-border commuters and compares cross-border commuters to...

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Marriage and the economy : theory and evidence from advanced industrial societies

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana (contributor); … - 2003 - 1. publ.

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Współczesne zjawiska w gospodarce : 9 Międzynarodowa konferencja z cyklu, 22-23 czerwca 2017 r.

Balcerzak, Adam P. (ed.); Pietryka, Ilona (ed.) - Międzynarodowa konferencja z cyklu "Współczesne …; … - 2017

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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021

We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...

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Child care, social norms and women's labor supply : four empirical essays in family economics

Schmitz, Sophia - 2019

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The Oxford handbook of women and the economy

Averett, Susan (ed.); Argys, Laura M. (ed.); … - 2018

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