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Employment, hours of work and the optimal taxation of low income families

Blundell, Richard W.; Shephard, Andrew - 2011

The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and transfer system. The analysis considers purely Pareto improving...

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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

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Job Changes and Hours Changes : Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Blundell, Richard W. - 2007

reforms on wages …

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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

Blundell, Richard W. - 2018

, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to …

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Children, time allocation and consumption insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2017

, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to …

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Two decades of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Belfield, Chris; Blundell, Richard W.; Cribb, Jonathan; … - 2017

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively "inclusive" growth from 1997-2004 and the Great Recession. We focus on the middle 90%, where trends have contrasted strongly with the "new inequality" at the very top. Household...

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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

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Collective labour supply: heterogeneity and nonparticipation

Blundell, Richard W.; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Magnac, … - 2005

not. The estimates of the sharing rule show that wages have a strong influence on bargaining power within couples. …

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Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents: Evidence from Vietnam

Liu, Amy Y. C.; Booth, Alison L. - 2012

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible...

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Part-time jobs : what women want?

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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