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with their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity – in … particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband – impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …
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Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income … gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …
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Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income … gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388333
Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … find that households in which the woman contributes more to the total household income are more likely to share housework …
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distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …
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We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by...
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We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014236403
distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …
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whether intra-household adaptation mechanisms differ by gender and by partnership status. The underlying method is a … and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …
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