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Fr??dorf, Anna - 2011

fully explored. Marital splits constitute a potential shock in relation to wealth: divorce is likely to reduce wealth … consumption. To identify the relation between divorce and wealth in Germany, this study employs wealth data on the individual … histories. To account for the reversed causality between divorce and wealth, conditional difference-in-differences matching …

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Flexible Work Arrangements: Improving Job Quality and Workforce Stability for Low-Wage Workers and their Employers

Glenn, Jessica; Watson, Liz - 2009

In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn, with unemployment reaching a 26-year high. While recent news suggests things may be improving, we cannot forget that for many low-wage and hourly workers -- who now represent over a quarter of...

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Lower-Wage Workers and Flexible Work Arrangements

Danziger, Anna; Boots, Shelley Waters - 2008

Workers at all levels within an organization have the need to manage their work and personal/family responsibilities. Much of the past research on workplace flexibility has focused on managerial or professional positions, and thus, higher-wage jobs and workers with higher incomes. But more...

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The Relationship Between Workers’ Centers And Labor Unions In The United States Today

Stone, Ian - 2008

This paper seeks to explore the link between unions and nonprofit adult education programs such as those found in workers’ centers in the United States today. It is apparent that current organizing strategies applied by larger unions in the United States today are changing out of necessity....

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The Relationship Between Workers’ Centers And Labor Unions In The United States Today

Stone, Ian - 2008

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ESSAYS IN DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS

Reinhold, Steffen - 2008

In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood ofmarital dissolution. This is...

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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973

Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981

The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...

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Productivity Spillovers Within Families and Firms

Papps, Kerry Liam - 2008

Survey of Youth 1979 are used and three different methods for measuring the probability of marriage and divorce are employed …. Consistent with theoretical predictions, married women are found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This … relationship holds both over an individual's life-cycle and across people with different inherent risks of divorce. The second …

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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics

Giolito, Eugenio - 2010

I develop an equilibrium, a two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth, to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age of men and women at first marriage. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model, I show that...

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