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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets
Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013
The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...
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Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies
Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent; Schäfer, Jérôme - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most debated rules. We begin by...
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The economy of the household
Kuiper, Edith (ed.) - 2014 - First published
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Same-Sex But Not the Same : Same-Sex Marriage in the US and France and the Universalist Narrative
Isailovic, Ivana - 2017
-sex marriage. The dominant approach for analyzing these reforms has been universalist. According to this view, same-sex marriage … focus of the debates (on the definition of marriage in the US and on filiation in France) and finally, the type of expertise …
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Französische Zustände überall? : Segregation und die Dispersion von Konflikten in europäischen Städten
Keller, Carsten - In: Urbane Differenzen : Disparitäten innerhalb und …, (pp. 231-249). 2011
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Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France
Frémeaux, Nicolas - 2017
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide descriptive evidence on the statistical association in several socio-economic attributes of partners among French couples (annual earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation)....
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Marital Status and Retirement : An Empirical Study for France
Doorley, Karina - 2019
models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage … status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage …
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Marrying Up : The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching
Abramitzky, Ran - 2009
exogenous shock to the French male population due to WWI casualties. We analyze a novel data set that links marriage-level data …
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Marital status and retirement : an empirical study for France
Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2019
models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage … status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002260
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Marrying Up : The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching
Abramitzky, Ran; Delavande, Adeline; Vasconcelos, Luis I. - 2011
We assemble a novel dataset to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage … gap decreased. These findings are consistent with men improving their position in the marriage market as they become …
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