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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers
Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...
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Returns to Self-Employment Experience in the Wage and Salary Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States
Trzcinski, Eileen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 177-183
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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Personality and marital surplus
Lundberg, Shelly - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality … important source of marital surplus for these cohorts. The effects of personality on marriage are more similar for younger men …
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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 8-12
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Common law marriage and couple formation
Grossbard, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-26
women without college. CLM effects on likelihood of marriage and cohabitation and likelihood of being divorced if ever …The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …
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Does Re-Partnering Behavior Spread Among Former Spouses?
Buyukkececi, Zafer - In: European Journal of Population 37 (2021) 4-5, pp. 799-824
This study focused on individuals' re-partnering behavior following a divorce and asked whether divorcees influence each other's new union formation. By exploiting the System of Social statistical Datasets (SSD) of Statistics Netherlands, I identified divorced dyads and examined...
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From never partnered to serial cohabitors: union trajectories to childlessness
Jalovaara, Marika; Fasang, Anette Eva - In: Demographic Research: a peer-reviewed, open-access … 36 (2017), pp. 1703-1720
high rates of separation and unmarried cohabitation. [Objective:] To situate (biological) childlessness in longitudinal … cohabitation near age 40; 2) Briefly Cohabited (25%), characterized by mostly living single after a brief cohabitation spell; 3 …) Cohabitors, Often Serial (19%), marked by typically discontinuous cohabitation; and 4) Married (11%). The Never-Partnered cluster …
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Are there gender differences in family trajectories by education in Finland?
Jalovaara, Marika; Fasang, Anette Eva - In: Demographic Research 33 (2015), pp. 1241-1256
states entered via the formation and dissolution of cohabitation and marriage and the birth of the first child. [Methods:] We …
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The Dynamics of Reservation Wages: Preliminary Evidence from the GSOEP
Prasad, Enswar - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 44-50
reservation wages, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset provides an interesting … perspective on the dynamics of reservation wages and their correlations with accepted wage offers for workers who make the …
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