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than singles, a novel result that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in …
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respect to their income than singles. This is a novel result that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self …
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result counters the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. …
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Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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We use a unique survey of Danes who have emigrated between 1987 and 2002 to study intra-family decision-making on … family decision-making in a bargaining framework and derive comparative statics to test with our data. Empirically, we find … that family migration decisions are usually a shared preference, but that they are often driven to a larger extent by the …
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We present theory on international migration of dual-earner couples, and test it using Danish register data. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates is increasing in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
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predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family …A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable … to one of the partners while results are less clear for small dissimilarities within the couple, suggesting that gender …
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that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …
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