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The Added Worker Effect Differentiated by Gender and Partnership Status – Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss

Triebe, Doreen - 2015

This paper examines the added worker effect (AWE), which refers to the increase of labor supply of individuals in response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies focus on married women's response to those shocks, I...

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Wo(men) at Work? The Impact of Cohabiting and Married Partners' Earnings on Women's Work Hours

Triebe, Doreen - 2014

This study investigates the determinants of women’s labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner’s wages on women’s work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic...

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Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Fertility and Maternal Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Sandner, Malte - 2015

effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the … intervention unintentionally decreased maternal employment and increased subsequent births. These results contradict those of … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility …

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Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce : Evidence from German Data

Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009

Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the...

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What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?

Hancioglu, Mine - 2017

professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course identifying and analyzing restrictions and interruptions of employment … identifying episodes of single motherhood and employment during life courses. Since family statuses of single mothers are … with over time. Enhancing labor market participation or maintaining full-time employment as a single mother can be achieved …

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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy

Fehr, Hans - 2010

joint increase of the fertility rate and female employment rate as observed in cross-country studies …

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Marriage, female labor supply, and Asian zodiacs

Lee, Jungmin - In: Economics letters 87 (2005) 3, pp. 427-432

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Does criminalizing discriminatory cultural practices improve women's welfare? : a simple model of Levirate marriage in Africa

Kudo, Yuya - In: Economics letters 199 (2021), pp. 1-3

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Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - In: Economics letters 214 (2022), pp. 1-4

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Women's Earning Power and the 'Double Burden' of Market and Household Work

Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2008

Bargaining theory suggests that married women who experience a relative improvement in their labour market position should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by institutional mechanisms that achieve long-term commitment, the...

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