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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Holter, Hans A; Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762003
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy; Holter, Hans A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700373
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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
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321445
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The Effect of Declining Marriage Prospects on Young Men's Labor-Force Participation Rate
Binder, Ariel - 2021
Why have so many young men left the U.S. workforce? This paper develops a model in which men earn a marriage market return on past employment. It hypothesizes that this return declined as gender-role-specialized marriage became a less efficient arrangement. It establishes causal evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236189
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429906
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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
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541781
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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
the the unemployment elasticity and Consumer price index elasticity on divorce have declined and almost and disappeared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533893
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Unemployment and marital breakdown: the Spanish case
González-Val, Rafael; Marcén, Miriam - 2018
This paper explores the relationship between a job loss and marital breakdown using Spanish panel data. The Great Recession in Spain has had severe consequences, representing an interesting framework to analyse the relationship between job loss and marital breakdown. Not only do we study whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131219
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On households and unemployment insurance
Choi, Sekyu; Valladares‐Esteban, Arnau - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 1, pp. 437-469
We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202383
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920450