gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

Surveys and sets of microeconomic data from Australia and Germany. -- time use ; gender differences ; household production …

into three broad sections-marriage and fertility; the labor market; and special topics and policy issues. Separate and …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our … theory. Primary earners in couples are more strongly self-selected with respect to their income than singles, a novel result …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our … the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way. We test our theory using register data on full population in … Denmark from 1982 to 2010. The empirical results for dual earner couples are in line with the theory.The elasticity of the …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …