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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
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 paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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Refugees welcome, but not in my backyard? : the impact of immigration on right-wing voting : evidence from Germany
Jasny, Johannes; Becker, Tilman - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1
This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major … small-scale immigration data, election data, and a set of socioeconomic factors. Our main finding states that the local … immigration boosted AFD votes but did not affect CDU votes directly. Instead, in regions that perceived immigration indirectly …
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Latent earning capacity and the race marriage gap
Nakosteen, Robert A.; Zimmer, Michael A. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20
One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative shortage of marriageable black men. Yet numerous studies...
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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...
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An empirical study on the migration among young skilled and creative people
Suciu, Marta-Christina; Florea, Cristina Andreea - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 727-741
In the context of a knowledge and innovative-based society and economy, smart and creative cities are attracting an increasing number of young people, most of them being gifted, very talented students and high-skilled workforce, with multiple competences . These young people are pro-active and...
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Intermarriage and the economic success of immigrants : who is the driving factor - the native spouses or the immigrants themselves?
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2015
associated with an increase in severe stress and a higher risk of divorce. …
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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US time use survey
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-37
We compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants against their counterparts in all-native couples using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18. We find that when intermarried to a native man, immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent that,...
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Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants : differences by gender
Basu, Sukanya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 8, pp. 1-28
Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can differ by type of marriage and gender of the...
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Less money after divorce : how the 2008 alimony reform in Germany affected spouses' labor supply, leisure and marital stability
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - In: Review of Economics of the Household 17 (2019) 4, pp. 1191-1223
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Field of study and partner choice
Artmann, Elisabeth; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - In: Economics of education review 84 (2021), pp. 1-7
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