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of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …
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following the legalization of same-sex marriage. Both partners in these couples were more likely to be employed, to work full … time, and to work longer hours. Marriage equality was also associated with a decrease in self-employment and within … by a reduction in discrimination, a marriage premium in wages, or changes in fertility, assortative matching and …
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In this paper, I assess the employment and income effect of divorce for women in West Germany between 2000 and 2005. With newly available administrative data that allows me to adopt a causal approach, I find strong negative employment effects with respect to marginal employment and strong...
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The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and marriage markets is numerous. Despite this, the …-Coles (1997) do not apply for a marriage market linked to this labor market and discuss the consequences of this …
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The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and the marriage markets is numerous and varied. Despite … and labor market participation. We then analyze the implications of our results for a frictional marriage market allowing …
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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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Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...
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