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Fatter Attraction : Marital Status and the Relationship between BMI and Labor Supply
Oreffice, Sonia - 2010
or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149440
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Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2015
An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over multi-dimensional characteristics. Importantly, the model suggests specific testable assumptions that allow researchers to uncover marginal rates of substitution (MRS) between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024927
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Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2021
this paper, we argue that the combined effect of mating on the marriage market and life time labor supply decisions can … early employment choices. To analyze this mechanism, we formulate a dynamic life cycle model of marriage and divorce, with … married women's employment and a 7% increase in marriage rate, comprised mainly of households in which the wife is married …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231655
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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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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
differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707623
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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 marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471012
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985999
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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