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Breaking the marriage trap: unilateral divorce and its effects on labor supply of married women

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorAlonso-Borrego, César
dc.contributor.authorPomares Varo, Gema
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrides
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-20T18:23:47Z
dc.date.available2023-04-20T18:23:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-20
dc.description.abstractWe assess the impact of the 2005 divorce law reform in Spain, which reduced the time length and the costs of marriage termination, on the labor market outcomes of married women. We use independent cross sections of the Spanish Labor Force Survey between 2001 and 2009. As the reform affected married couples but not unmarried couples, we undertake a differences-in-differences approach to estimate the causal effect. Our results show that the reform substantially increased the participation and the occupation rates of married women by 4 and 3 percentage points, respectively, but reduced their average working hours by 5 percent. This latter result comes along with a large increase in part time employment due to the reform. The effects weremore pronounced for women without young children, with low education levels, and living in provinces where separate property was the default marital regime.es
dc.description.sponsorshipFinancial support by MICIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033, grants CEX2021-001181-M and RTI2018-095231-B-I00, and Comunidad de Madrid, grants EPUC3M11 (V PRICIT) and H2019/HUM-5891, is gratefully acknowledged.en
dc.identifier.issn2340-5031es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/37157
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000002071es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking paper. Economicses
dc.relation.ispartofseries23-04es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. RTI2018-095231-B-I00es
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. H2019/HUM-5891es
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid.es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. CEX2021-001181-Mes
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.subject.jelJ22es
dc.subject.jelJ12es
dc.subject.jelJ16es
dc.subject.jelK36es
dc.subject.jelC21es
dc.subject.jelD19es
dc.titleBreaking the marriage trap: unilateral divorce and its effects on labor supply of married womenes
dc.typeworking paper*
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