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Effect of labor division between wife and husband on the risk of divorce : evidence from German data
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009 - Current draft: October 2009
of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively … breadwinner-couples have a substantially higher risk of divorce than male breadwinner-couples. In contrast, the equal division …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635931
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Effect of labor division between wife and husband on the risk of divorce : evidence from German data
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009
does not significantly alter the probability of separation. -- Divorce ; labor division ; Germany … of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively … breadwinner-couples have a substantially higher risk of divorce than male breadwinner-couples. In contrast, the equal division …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905704
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115147
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Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce : Evidence from German Data
Kraft, Kornelius - 2009
of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively … breadwinner-couples have a substantially higher risk of divorce than male breadwinner-couples. In contrast, the equal division …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155001
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318249
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Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce : Evidence from German Data
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009
of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively … breadwinner-couples have a substantially higher risk of divorce than male breadwinner-couples. In contrast, the equal division …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202209
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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694836
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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals …Die Unterhaltsrechtsreform in Deutschland, die 2008 in Kraft trat, senkte die Ansprüche auf Geschiedenen- und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745678
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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 births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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Would you marry me? : the effects of marriage on German couples' allocation of time
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Moreau, Nicolas - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt the estimator introduced by Semykina and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628747