For several centuries, women's age at first marriage in Western Europe was higher than in the east (and in the rest of … model based on the economics of the household explains this association in two related ways. Both connect mortality, and the … exercise of fertility restraint through higher marriage age, with greater human capital accumulation. The first explanation is …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …