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Female Labour Supply and Spousal Education

Papps, Kerry L. - 2010

are positively related to spousal education at the time of marriage but also fall more rapidly over time after marriage … marriage when the husband is highly educated. Overall, the results provide evidence consistent with both marital sorting on the …

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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...

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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2011

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...

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Marriage with Labour Supply

Jacquemet, Nicolas - 2011

We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor … female wages. We estimate that the share of marriage surplus appropriated by the man increases with his wage and that the …

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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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Married Females Labor Supply and the Effect of Couple's Education Gap

Gihleb, Rania - 2012

Using March CPS data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1965 to 2011. We find that the female's relative position in education within the household is an important determinant in the decision to undertake employment, even after accounting for husband's wage. These...

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The Effect of Marital Dissolution on the Labour Supply of Males and Females : Evidence from Canada

Mueller, Richard - 2013

The literature on divorce and labour supply generally analyzes standard labour supply measures such as annual hours worked. We include hours per day and days per week as two new dimensions of work time, and use a 3-year panel which allows us to address the effects of divorce on five time...

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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses

Schøne, Pål - 2020

We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction industry, and their wives. We use license requirements to divide workers into two groups who are more...

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The Effects of Marriage on Couples' Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours

El Lahga, AbdelRahmen - 2007

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples

Papps, Kerry L. - 2006

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

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