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to the labor market shock, while the value of marriage remains high because of the family insurance provided by the …
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We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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reservation utilities for entering into a marriage. This makes them turn down many offers and makes them appear as "heart-breakers". …
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Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...
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than labor income in explaining marriage choice. This quantitative result seems to characterize the expected lifetime … inheritance and labor income after marriage for Germany under the actual rate of return, growth rate, demographics as well as …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years, and document key differences to the US case. While the … they widened over time: accounting for composition, integration outcomes show no systematic trend. However, economic …
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