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The lock-in effect of marriage : work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329772
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The lock-in effect of marriage : work incentives after saying "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342271
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Common law marriage and male/female convergence in labor supply and time use
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014
Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239260
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The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021
Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800558
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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254027
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Marriage, children, and labor supply: beliefs and outcomes
Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2020
While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known about the expectations of these objects at earlier stages. We examine these expectations, taking advantage of unique data from the Berea Panel Study. In addition to characterizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286536
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Marriage and marriage markets
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572290
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The economics of hypergamy
Almås, Ingvild; Kotsadam, Andreas; Moen, Espen R.; … - 2019
Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...
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Overwork in spouse's degree field and the labor market outcomes of skilled women
McKinnish, Terra G. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of overwork and underwork in husband's undergraduate degree field on the labor market outcomes of skilled married women using 2009-2015 ACS data. Overwork and underwork by degree field, respectively, are measured as the fraction of prime-aged men reporting 50 or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979170
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More or less unmarried : the impact of legal settings of cohabitation on labour market outcomes
Goussé, Marion; Leturcq, Marion - 2021
men's labour supply and earnings and decreases those of women's. The impact of the marriage-like regime is stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583673