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Special Issue in Honor of Gary S. Becker

  1. Using linked employer–employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Con...

    Authors: Boris Hirsch, Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:19
  2. The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the US CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time varia...

    Authors: Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:16
  3. We model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting. Using minimal assumptions, we prove that demand for public goods is characterized by three regimes. It is either determi...

    Authors: Jan Boone, Karen van der Wiel, Arthur van Soest and Frederic Vermeulen
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:11