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Discriminatory laws against women : a survey of the literature

Roy, Sanchari - 2019

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...

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Job search, occupational choice and learning

Büyükbaşaran, Tayyar - In: Central Bank review / Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey 20 (2020) 3, pp. 85-97

process and best occupations fitting to them. A search and learning model is provided in order to analyze these effects. In … the model, search outcomes relay information about workers’ job finding abilities and appropriate occupations suited to … them, and workers use this information to infer their types. Our theory explains how search outcomes during unemployment …

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Editorial on the special issue "changes in educational homogamy and its consequences"

Blossfeld, Pia Nicoletta; Scherer, Stefani; Uunk, Wilfred - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 49 (2024), pp. 437-466

Recent decades have seen major changes in the educational profiles of the populations of Western industrialised countries, notably a sharp rise in educational attainment and a reversal of the gender gap in education. These trends are likely to have affected patterns of educational assortative...

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Assortative mating in Spain : who marries whom, and how does it influence income and wealth inequality?

De Poli, Silvia; Onrubia, Jorge; Picos, Fidel - 2024

the joint income-wealth at the time of marriage, it explains about 25% of the pre-tax inequality and 34% of the post …

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War, marriage markets and the sex ratio at birth

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011

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Women's employment, income and divorce in West Germany : a causal approach

Brüggmann, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/5, pp. 1-22

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...

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Does marriage increase couples' life satisfaction?

Gattig, Alexander; Minkus, Lara - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 46 (2021), pp. 123-148

, whether marriage makes people more satisfied with life or whether more satisfied couples are more likely to marry remains a … distinguish - controlling for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity - whether there is in fact an effect of marriage on life … persons - overestimates the effect of marriage on life satisfaction. A fixed-effects estimator reveals a much lower effect of …

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Assortative preferences in choice of major

Aydede, Yigit - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-25

The primary objective of this study is to examine the contribution of available information constrained by parents' fields of study to the observed assortative preferences in their children's choice of major. Comparable to panel models, we define within-family transmission functions with 1-to-2...

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Does individual educational attainment affect educational homogamy? : evidence from CGSS

Huo, Congjia; Chen, Lingming - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 82-107

Family is the basic unit that constitutes social relations, and marriage-matching determines the development trajectory … of a household. Education has become one of the most important ingredients of marriage in modern society, and the …

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Assortative mating, marital stability and the role of business cycles in the United States from 1968 to 2011

Jacob, Nikita - 2024

marital stability. Shared gains from marriage also depend on spouses' characteristics such as age, education, ethnicity and …

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