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beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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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 …
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This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse performs. For single-earner couples, both husbands and wives are more satisfied with the other spouse if the wife performs the greater share of the housework on weekdays. In...
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labour market dimensions. Gender inequalities are further aggravated among people with children. Women with children under 16 … are much more likely to be unemployed, work part-time or on temporary contracts than men with children of the same age. We … show that it is unlikely that preferences alone can account for these gaps. A review of the evidence shows that family …
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The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …
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widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We consider prepandemic division …
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differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …. The finding for intermarried female households is reversed, and gender-based specialization increases, when controls for …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …
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