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Labor Market Participation of Swiss Married Women
Russo, Carmine - 2019
This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss labor force because they have an high no-labor income,...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262952
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The Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform
Lubotsky, Darren H. - 2000
The recent reform of the federal welfare system was meant to encourage recipients to leave welfare and enter the workforce. If the reform is successful there are likely to be effects felt throughout the low--skilled end of the labor market. As former welfare recipients enter the labor market,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194608
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Labour force participation of mature age men in Australia : the role of spousal participation
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Zhu, Rong - 2013
In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792967
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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
Kaestner, Robert - 2001
In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470177
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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001
In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124352
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920450
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The Effect of Declining Marriage Prospects on Young Men's Labor-Force Participation Rate
Binder, Ariel - 2021
unilateral divorce regime transitions across U.S. states in the 1970s. These shocks reduce marriage and labor-force participation …Why have so many young men left the U.S. workforce? This paper develops a model in which men earn a marriage market … return on past employment. It hypothesizes that this return declined as gender-role-specialized marriage became a less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236189
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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 marriage by the median age of marriage) in a multivariate setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113827
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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage market value of young men
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018
manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844558