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How much does marital sorting contribute to intergenerational socio-economic persistence?
Holmlund, Helena - 2019
This paper investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of partners' "potential" earnings affects intergenerational earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111272
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Gender differences in the earnings mobility of migrants
Flake, Regina - 2012
This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in … Germany. Thereby it takes into account the influence of assortative mating and the parental integration. First … differences in the mobility - neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638397
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408835
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Dynamic effects of educational assortative mating on labor supply
Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2016
formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476887
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from East and West Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300737
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from east and west Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317821
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Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labor Supply : Evidence from East and West Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017999
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Beyond Inequality Accounting : Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046249
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Intergenerational transmission of spousal inequality
Nguyen, Kieu-Dung - In: Estudios de economía 48 (2021) 1, pp. 5-33
This paper studies whether sons and daughters reproduce in their relationships the same intra-household inequalities observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we emphasize the relevance of transmission of preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544378