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The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of commitment: full, limited, and no commitment. We propose...
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inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative …
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inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative …
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On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of...
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economic factors, and fixed effects of province and year. We find some evidence of minimum wage impacts on wages and employment …
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wages and satisfaction. We also discuss diffculties in the implementation of the minimum wage and the measurement of its … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …
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Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
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drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker … characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion. We also analyze … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …
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empirical analysis further suggests that, on net, unions have an equalizing effect on the distribution of wages. …
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