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In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
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The early contributions to the microeconomic literature assume that only market goods yield utility, and that the only way adults can secure the consumption of these goods in old age is by saving. The more recent contributions recognize, however, that the elderly derive utility also from goods...
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In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
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This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...
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-mandatory retirement savings. To answer this question we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in … possession of retirement saving accounts among spouses is positively correlated, hinting at a “crowding-in” of saving accounts … “crowding-in” of total retirement saving amounts between spouses, probably due to some “recognition effect”. The unitary model …
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-mandatory retirement savings. Therefore we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in Germany taking … model, showing that the possession of retirement saving accounts among spouses is positively correlated, hinting at a …. These results additionally show a "crowding-in" of total retirement savings amounts between spouses, probably due to some …
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Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female housework time. However, longitudinal and crosssectional evidence seems to contradict this implication. Women's share of home time fails to decrease despite increases in women's...
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