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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Raaum, Oddbjorn - 2007
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find...
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Migration, marriage and social mobility : women in Sweden 1880-1900
Dribe, Martin; Eriksson, Björn; Scalone, Francesco - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 71 (2019), pp. 93-111
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A U.S. analysis of the macro- and micro-economics of family formation : marrying in the great recession and prior post-industrial recessions ; conference paper
Espinoza, C. Soledad - 2014
With restricted-use data from the U.S. Census Bureau, I conduct an analysis of the macro- and micro-economic determinants of marrying. Based on observations across a broad segment of calendar years (from 1978 to 2010), I examine the measures of the national unemployment rate for males, national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431597
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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing
Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002
marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …
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Season of birth and marital outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387916
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Modeling eldercare by children and children-in-law : the role of marriage institutions
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2017
well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or … and happiness of in-family caregivers could be enriched by taking account of material in-marriage transfers that the … their counterparts in the South. Their families are also likely to pay lower dowries at the time of marriage, which is …
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Spouses as home health workers and cooks : insights for applied research
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2023
related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These … variables include sex ratios (and exogenous parameters that influence sex ratios) as well as legal changes related to marriage …
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marriage and childbirth : survey-based evidence from Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
COVID-19 pandemic on marriage and childbirth in Iran. The results of the empirical investigation using logistic regressions … suggest that the experience of unemployment due to the pandemic is positively associated with marriage during the pandemic and … the experience of losing a close relative or family member is negatively associated with marriage. In addition, concern …
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Why Are Fertility and Women?s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the U.K.
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2004
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...
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The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela - 2002
Economic models of household behavior typically yield the prediction that increases in schooling levels and wage rates of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262820