Using a correspondence study in the accountant job market in China, this paper studies whether getting married or being a parent harms women during the recruitment process. We find that getting married decreases the probability to receive a call back for women by 3 percentage points on average....

The objective of the paper is to find empirically whether husbands and wives tend to retire at the same time, and to give an explanation of the findings. Similarity of retirement dates could be caused by similarity of tastes (assortative mating), by economic variables, or by the complimentarity...

Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross-border marriages, migrant domestic workers, and sex workers have burgeoned, demonstrating growing scholarly...