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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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Analyzing matching patterns in marriage : theory and application to Italian data

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Ciscato, Edoardo; Guerriero, Carla - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 3, pp. 737-781

Social scientists have long been interested in marital homogamy and its relationship with inequality. However, measuring homogamy is not straightforward, particularly when one is interested in assessing marital sorting based on multiple traits. In this paper, we argue that Separate Extreme Value...

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How broadband internet affects labor market matching

Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2020

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters,...

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Understanding spatial house price dynamics in a housing boom

Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Syrichas, Nicolas - 2025

We examine the evolution of spatial house price dispersion during Germany's recent housing boom. Using a dataset of sales listings, we find that house price dispersion has significantly increased, which is driven entirely by rising price variation across postal codes. We show that both price...

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Sufficient statistics for frictional wage dispersion and growth

Vejlin, Rune Majlund; Veramendi, Gregory - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 3, pp. 935-979

This paper develops a sufficient statistics approach for estimating the role of search frictions in wage dispersion and life‐cycle wage growth. We show how the wage dynamics of displaced workers are directly informative of both for a large class of search models. Specifically, the correlation...

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A job ladder model with stochastic employment opportunities

Bradley, Jake; Gottfries, Axel - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1399-1430

We set up a model with on-the-job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for which workers occasionally apply. The model nests the standard job ladder and stock-flow models as special cases, while remaining analytically tractable and easy to estimate from standard panel data sets. The...

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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice

Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021

show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …

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The lock-in effect of marriage : work incentives after saying "Yes, I do."

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US time use survey

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-37

-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women, but not for …

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