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in economics of love and marriage, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, France, Ireland, Italy, maternal labour supply, single parents, sole parents, welfare state
Despite supposedly having stingy welfare states, both New Zealand and Australia have a lot of sole parents who do not work at all. There is no separate breakdown of full-time and part-time work status in the USA. About 72% of sole parents in the USA either work full-time or part-time.
Source: OECD Family Database.
13 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage Tags: dating market, marriage and divorce, search and matching
“The researchers looked at different variables to understand why divorces tend to be filed by women. They suggest three main explanations:
Source: Are Women More Likely Than Men To End A Relationship? | FiveThirtyEight
06 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
05 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, compensating differentials, female labour force participation, gender wage gap, marital labour supply
HT: Lorenzo Michael Warby.
01 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage Tags: dating market, marriage and divorce, marriage market, search and matching
The linguistic features of dates that click click click click
priceonomics.com/what-people-sa… http://t.co/EhvfSjn20l—
Roseann Cima (@rosiecima) May 22, 2015
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: dating market, marriage and divorce, marriage market
What Professions Are Most Likely To Marry Each Other?
priceonomics.com/what-professio… http://t.co/1FVQRA67qc—
Priceonomics (@priceonomics) September 16, 2015
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics Tags: economics of fertility, family demographics, marriage and divorce, search and matching
They certainly don’t go much for cohabiting in Italy or indeed the USA among young adults. Cohabitation is pretty much the same everywhere else. Marriage is not so common in Sweden generally among young people.
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics Tags: economics of fertility, marriage and divorce, search and matching, single parents, soul parents
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
Women still do most of the household chores? Data on who does what in the house: goo.gl/3doqy4 #statistics https://t.co/fnY0d9OgkT—
DataStories (@LindaRegber) October 24, 2015
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
Living in sin is much more popular in some countries. The French and Scandinavians are really big on not bothering to marry but live together and raise children.
Source: OECD Family Database.
Data on the number of two-parent households who were married or not was not available for the USA, Australia or New Zealand, unfortunately.
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
The percentage of sole parent households varies widely across the OECD member countries charted below including between the English-speaking countries.
Source: OECD Family Database.
19 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, television Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, marriage and divorce, search and matching, The battle of the sexes, The Simpsons
06 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, labour economics Tags: assortative mating, asymmetric marriage premium, College premium, dating market, marriage market, power couples, reversing gender gap, search and matching
Why dating in America for college-educated women is completely unfair wapo.st/1L1lULW http://t.co/hTCYCR5GCm—
Know More (@knowmorewp) September 09, 2015
04 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, household production, marital division of labour, marriage and divorce
Men need to get off the sofa and do some housework, data show wapo.st/1LOS9OQ http://t.co/yRfwISaXaH—
Know More (@knowmorewp) September 30, 2015
04 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics, property rights Tags: Europe, family name, surnames
Map of the most common surnames in Europe, 2011. http://t.co/GiYX5p4nWI—
Amazing Maps (@amazinmaps) September 13, 2015
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