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Status, Happiness, and Relative Income

The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany: What Explains the Difference?

Wages and Employment in the US and Germany: What Explains the Differences?

Modelling International Migration: Economic and Econometric Issues

Network Migration of Ethnic Germans

Unemployment and Wages of Ethnic Germans

Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Migrants

Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision affects the equilibrium. Due to ...

Formal Child Care and Family Structure: Theory and Evidence

This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision affects the equilibrium. Due ...