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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2011
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2005
This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set … spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in … the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential, as well as actual, division of labor seems to contribute to spouses …
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Personality and marital surplus
Lundberg, Shelly - 2010
, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …
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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being: Evidence for West Germany and Great Britain
Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...
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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality : Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2005
marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …
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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian - 2012
In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk: a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
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Effect of labor division between wife and husband on the risk of divorce: evidence from German data
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009
of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively …
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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2005
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003
This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between...
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