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Marriage and Divorce : The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Schulz, Bastian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...
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Marriage and the City
Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2021
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
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Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions
Anderberg, Dan - 2021
This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...
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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration : Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods …
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan G. - 2022
(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …
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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the Us and Europe Since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander - 2019
We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven … in married women’s employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …
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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions : An Experiment in India
Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration
Haaland, Ingar - 2020
Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we … first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then … provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration …
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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...
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