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Does marriage affect men's labor market outcomes? : a European perspective

Jakobsson, Niklas; Kotsadam, Andreas - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 2, pp. 373-389

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Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples

Hofmarcher, Thomas; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021

We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...

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Household labor supply and Home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents

Bredemeier, Christian (contributor); … - 2009

We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...

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Household labor supply and home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents

Bredemeier, Christian (contributor); … - 2009

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Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2010

paper explores the degree to which the role of education and marriage in women's labor supply decisions also changed over …

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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe

Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012

. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … study the impact of two mechanisms on labor supply: (i) differences in marriage stability and (ii) differences in tax … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …

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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US : new results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US : new results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

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Changes in the labor supply behavior of married women: 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D. (contributor); … - 2006

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …

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Why Do So Few Women Work in New York (And So Many in Minneapolis)? Labor Supply of Married Women across U.S. Cities

Black, Dan; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2012

This paper documents a little-noticed feature of U.S. labor markets -- very large variation in the labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on cross-city differences in commuting times as a potential explanation for this variation. We start with a model in which commuting times...

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