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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

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Recent trends in household wealth in the United States: Rising debt and the middle-class squeeze - An update to 2007

Wolff, Edward N. - 2010

I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent 'middle-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell...

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Information and communications technologies, coordination and control, and the distribution of income

Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007

We consider the links between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the distribution of income, as mediated by problems of coordination and control within organizations. In the large corporations of the mid-twentieth century, a highly developed division of labor was coordinated...

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Caste and wealth inequality in India

Zacharias, Ajit; Vakulabharanam, Vamsi - 2009

In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 199192 and 200203. According to our findings, the groups in India that are...

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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: Evidence from a field experiment in Germany

Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021

To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email-correspondence study in Germany. We approach 3,224 physician offices in the 79 largest cities in Germany with fictitious appointment requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find...

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Bank branch access: Evidence from geolocation data

Sakong, Jung; Zentefis, Alexander K. - 2023

Low-income and Black households are less likely to visit bank branches than high-income and White households, despite the former two groups appearing to rely more on branches as means of bank participation. We assess whether unequal branch access can explain that disparity. We propose a measure...

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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality

Hamersh, Daniel S. - 2006

Eating requires the raw food materials that make up meals and also the time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the United States for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect both time...

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Volunteering and the State

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009

This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...

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Luxuries, necessities, and the allocation of time

Fang, Lei; Hannusch, Anne; Silos, Pedro - 2021

Households enjoy utility from activities that require a combination of time and goods. We classify activities into two types: luxuries and necessities. Luxuries (necessities) are activities for which time and expenditure shares rise (decline) with income. We develop and estimate a model with...

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Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours: Was Thorsten Veblen Right?

Bowles, Samuel; Park, Yongjin - 2004

We investigate Veblen effects on work hours, namely the way that a desire to emulate the consumption standards of the rich induces longer work hours among the rest. Consistent with our model of these asymmetric social comparisons, greater inequality predicts longer work hours in ten OECD...

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