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Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants : differences by gender
Basu, Sukanya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 8, pp. 1-28
Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … education, native spouses supply more market labor. Intermarriage may also skew bargaining power in favor of native husbands in …
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Chapter 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 105-182). 2015
This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
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Women's employment, income and divorce in West Germany : a causal approach
Brüggmann, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/5, pp. 1-22
In this paper, I assess the employment and income effect of divorce for women in West Germany between 2000 and 2005 …. With newly available administrative data that allows me to adopt a causal approach, I find strong negative employment … effects with respect to marginal employment and strong positive effects with respect to regular employ-ment. However, in sum …
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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This …
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The cost of immigrants' occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada
Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-23
Using the 2006 Census, we create a continuous index that quantifies the relatedness between 1375 fields of study and 520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the "common" matching quality in Canadian labor markets that internationally educated immigrant...
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The role of social capital in shaping Europeans' immigration sentiments
Economidou, Claire; Karamanis, Dimitris; Kechrinioti, … - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/3, pp. 1-31
individuals. The present paper studies the Europeans' attitudes toward immigration, focusing particularly on the role of social …
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Towards an economic approach for studying of divorces in Macedonia
Miladinov, Goran - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 2 (2015) 1, pp. 21-32
This paper examines the impact of trends in female labor force participation on crude divorce rate in Macedonia for the period from 1996 to 2013 in the context of a broader examination of the relationship between the economic factors and their effects and the risk of divorce. In light of the...
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Sharing housework between husbands and wives : how to improve marital satisfaction for working wives in Japan
Kobayashi, Mayu; Kobayashi, Miki; Okumura, Tsunao; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-15
This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse performs. For single-earner couples, both husbands and wives are more satisfied with the other spouse if the wife performs the greater share of the housework on weekdays. In...
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Households' responses to spousal job loss : "all change" or "carry on as usual"?
Gush, Karon; Scott, James; Laurie, Heather - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 29 (2015) 5, pp. 703-719
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Marriage, employment participation and home production in search equilibrium
Bonilla, Roberto; Trejos, Alberto - In: Monetaria : English edition 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-23
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