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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...

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Daddy months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings : evidence from administrative data

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014

This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...

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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …

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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …

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Daddy months : conference paper

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to having a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Female self-employment and children : the case of Sweden

Andersson Joona, Pernilla - 2014

Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing...

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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

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Remote work, children's health and the racial gap in female wages

Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Fertility and family labor supply

Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Low, Hamish - 2022

We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …

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