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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 … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …
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Marriage and divorce under labor market uncertainty
Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019 - Preliminary version
This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304704
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Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2010
paper explores the degree to which the role of education and marriage in women's labor supply decisions also changed over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664148
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary education in Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951944
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973131
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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996034
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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The labour market impacts of leaving education when unemployment is high : evidence from Britain
Taylor, Mark P. - 2013
We estimate the effects of initial labour market entry conditions on a range of subsequent job outcomes for men and women who entered the British labour market between 1991 and 2009, using data from the British Household Panel Survey and its successor Understanding Society. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009778459
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429906
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Overwork in spouse's degree field and the labor market outcomes of skilled women
McKinnish, Terra G. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of overwork and underwork in husband's undergraduate degree field on the labor market outcomes of skilled married women using 2009-2015 ACS data. Overwork and underwork by degree field, respectively, are measured as the fraction of prime-aged men reporting 50 or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979170