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Dilemmaet arbejdsliv - familieliv i Norden
Bonke, Jens (contributor) - 1997
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His or her work-life balance? : experiences of self-employed immigrant parents
Munkejord, Mai Camilla - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 31 (2017) 4, pp. 624-639
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Economics of the family and family policies : a selection of papers from the 15. Arne Ryde Symposium on "Economics of Gender and the Family," in honor of Anna Bugge and Knut Wickse...
Persson, Inga (ed.); Bugge, Anna (honouree);  … - 1997 - 1. publ.
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Prostitution or Marriage? Evidence from the Nordic Model
Gao, Huasheng; Petrova, Vanya; Yin, Mengfan - 2023
We identify the substitution effect of the prostitution market on the marriage market. Our tests exploit the staggered country-level adoption of the Nordic model of prostitution regulation, which is the recent global trend of restraining commercial sex. We find that the Nordic model leads to a...
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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Family culture and fertility outcomes - evidence from American siblings
Eschelbach, Martina - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 3, pp. 246-267
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The effect of a sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
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