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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2004
within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275026
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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419016
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Household interaction and the labor supply of married women
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2012
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679814
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The decision to work by married immigrant women : the role of extended family households
Antecol, Heather (contributor); Bedard, Kelly (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We find differential rates of cohabitation with adult relatives as well as differential impacts of that cohabitation on … labor supply response is biggest for immigrants with young children. This further suggests that cohabitation allows married …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001769496
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Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women
Eckstein, Zvi - 2012
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096154
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Income Replacement Rates Among Canadian Seniors : The Effect of Widowhood and Divorce
Larochelle-Côté, Sebastien - 2012
Using a longitudinal database and fixed-effects econometric models, this paper assesses the effect of widowhood or widowerhood, and divorce after age 55 on income replacement rates during the retirement years. Among women, separation or divorce has a larger negative effect than does widowhood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104478
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Wealth Distribution within Couples
Grabka, Markus - 2013
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074897
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The Role of Labor and Marriage Markets, Preference Heterogeneity and the Welfare System in the Life Cycle Decisions of Black, Hispanic and White Women
Keane, Michael P. - 2006
women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation. We … observed minority-majority differences in behavior can be attributed to differences in labor market opportunities, marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734133
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Mothers' caregiving during COVID: the impact of divorce laws and homeownership on women's labor force status
Bansak, Cynthia; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Wong, … - 2021
We investigate women's likelihood of withdrawing from paid labor to care for children and help them with schoolwork as a result of COVID and school closures. Were women more likely to shift out of paid labor in states where property-division rules would better protect the financial interests of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519243
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Economics of Marriage Bars
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2021
A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … twentieth century, Marriage Bars were not unusual internationally. In the late 1800s to early 1900s, legislative provisions that … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619763