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In this paper, we use EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model of the European Union, to investigate the impact of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net...
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The European Marriage Pattern (EMP), in place in NW Europe for perhaps 500 years, substantially limited fertility. But how could such limitation persist when some individuals who deviated from the EMP norm had more children? If their children inherited their deviant behaviors, their descendants...
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This study shows that entering into a cohabiting partnership leads to long lasting earnings losses for women, even after accounting for the impact of child penalties. While 2 ⁄3 of the total effect of cohabitation is due to partnered women having higher fertility than unpartnered women, an...
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Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
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Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
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Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242330
We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …
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immigration from Western European countries; and 2) how such immigrants fare in the British labour market in terms of employment …-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of immigration and the quality of the new immigrants. We focus on …
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