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An evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in European countries

Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2009

This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD …

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; van Praag, Mirjam; Thompson, Peter - 2014

We study possible motivations for co-entrepreneurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish … couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm … performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - 2014

The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...

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Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Bloemen, Hans; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - 2015

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives' probability to retire within one year, using administrative micro panel data that cover the whole Dutch population. We employ an instrumental variable approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is...

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Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis

Bonsang, Eric; van Soest, Arthur - 2015

data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement …

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The Determinants of Retirement Planning within Couples in Ireland

Doorley, Karina; Nolan, Anne - 2019

within couples and about how the gap or interaction between the financial literacy of members of a couple influences their …-retirement couples and their level of wealth and financial stress using TILDA data for Ireland. We find that joint financial literacy is …

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Retirement, Social Support and Mental Wellbeing: A Couple-level Analysis

Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2020

Social support is increasingly acknowledged as an important resource for promoting wellbeing. We test whether social support changes around retirement. We also examine whether social support moderates dynamics in mental wellbeing around retirement and consider both own and spouse's retirement....

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For Worse? Financial Hardships and Intra-Household Resource Allocation among Australian Couples

Botha, Ferdi; Ribar, David C. - 2020

This paper considers the association between intra-household resource allocation and couple financial hardships in Australia. It develops and estimates a collective household model of expenditures on individual-specific necessities and hardship reporting where each partner has a distinct utility...

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Retirement and home production: A regression discontinuity approach

Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; van Soest, Arthur - 2011

consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home …

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Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one year, using administrative micro panel data that cover the whole Dutch population. We employ an instrumental variable approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195817