Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...

Are couples in Europe becoming more gender-equal? This short statistical paper examines two specific aspects of the question: (i) the emerging trends in couples’ earnings structure, and (ii) the extent to which more equal earnings relates to more equal domestic work contributions. We found a...

This report summarises and synthesises the findings of a research project entitled ‘Reconciling work, private and family life: production of statistical reports’, which consisted of six related Short Statistical Reports (SSRs). The SSRs examined the topics of the Barcelona childcare targets...

The economic behaviour of companies in connection with positioning their capital abroad reacts on comparability of tax conditions in single countries. The main task of the tax reform became simplicity, transparency and complicacy with the aim of gradual transformation on European legislative...

The following report intents to describe the matrimonial property law in Austria. Austrian matrimonial property law to a large extent is settled law. Although very important for marriage this area of law compared to marriage and divorce law is of less interest to legal literature. Only recently...

This Addendum intents to amend the original study on u0093Comparative Law on the Rules Governing Conflicts of Jurisdiction and Laws on Matrimonial Property Regimes and the Implications for Property Issues of the Separation of Unmarried Couples in the Member Statesu0094 prepared in May 2002. The...