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How Do Marital Status, Wage Rates, and Work Commitment Interact?

Ahituv, Avner; Lerman, Robert I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

How marriage interacts with men’s earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly … encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the … linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we …

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The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women's Labour Supply

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian … appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …

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Culture, Intermarriage, and Immigrant Women's - Labor Supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2012

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...

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What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?

Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focus on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course...

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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2015

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. Estimates of a DCDP model indicate that an extra year of volunteer experience increases wage offers by 8.5% in future part-time work and by 2.6% in future full-time work. On average, working for free...

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Why Are Married Men Working So Much? The Macroeconomics of Bargaining Between Spouses

Knowles, John A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

bargaining are both essential for understanding these trends, and develops an equilibrium model of marriage and bargaining …

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Why are Married Men Working So Much?

Knowles, John - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005

unitary households maximize the sum of the spouse’s utility. We develop a simple bargaining model of marriage, divorce and … and marriage rates when the quality of single life is relatively high for women. Calibration to US data shows the trend in …

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Access to Full-Time Employment: Does Gender Matter?

Smith, Meg; Tannous, Kathy - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 16 (2013) 2, pp. 237-257

Women are participating in the labour market in higher proportions than in the past, with the female participation rate in June 2012 standing at 58.9 per cent. However, a gendered pattern of workforce engagement persists, particularly as it concerns part-time employment; 70 per cent all...

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New Estimates of Mothers’ Forgone Earnings Using HILDA Data

Breusch, Trevor; Gray, Edith - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 7 (2004) 2, pp. 125-150

Women who have children miss out on potential earnings. This happens through a combination of time out of the labour force, reduced working hours and lower paying jobs. We examine mothers' forgone earnings using HILDA 2001 data and find substantial effects, which vary with the woman's education...

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