divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage … Participation (SIPP). We then exploit variation in laws governing divorce across states and over time to quasi …

In this paper, I assess the employment and income effect of divorce for women in West Germany between 2000 and 2005 …. With newly available administrative data that allows me to adopt a causal approach, I find strong negative employment … effects with respect to marginal employment and strong positive effects with respect to regular employ-ment. However, in sum …