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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law

Schaubert, Marianna - 2018

This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform … bargaining power. Estimating difference-in-differences models I find that, indeed, wives who face a potential low alimony loss … those who have been (dis)advantaged by this reform is a new one, proposing a method that reflects the realities of alimony …

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Early labor market prospects and family formation

Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019

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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Early labor market prospects and family formation

Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018

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Less money after divorce : how the 2008 alimony reform in Germany affected spouses' labor supply, leisure and marital stability

Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - In: Review of Economics of the Household 17 (2019) 4, pp. 1191-1223

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Do Alimony Regulations Matter inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law

Schaubert, Marianna - 2018

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Work and family : marriage, children, child gender and the work hours and earnings of West German men

Choi, Hyung-Jai (contributor); Joesch, Jutta M. (contributor) - 2005

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...

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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men

Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021

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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability in the United States : differences by race and ethnicity

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon-jeong - 2017

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...

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Marital instability in the United States : trends, driving forces, and implications for children

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon Jeong - 2017

This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of divorce, with a focus on U.S. studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the divorce rate and the widening gap in marital instability by socioeconomic status. We review the role of age at...

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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce

González, Libertad - 2014

Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing unilateral divorce (both spouses do not have to agree on...

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