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Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: Panel data evidence for Britain
Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005
This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292936
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Job Changes and Hours Changes:Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women´s labour supply changes inresponse to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reformschanged individuals´ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply.We find evidence of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861861
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307333
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Job Changes and Hours Changes : Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
Blundell, Richard W. - 2007
reforms on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775845
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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
Blundell, Richard W. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123920
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776047
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930924
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583577
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Mehr Ungleichheit durch kleinere Haushalte? Der Zusammenhang zwischen Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur und der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland (Changes in household structur...
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 43 (2011) 4, pp. 327-338
as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … affect per capita incomes, which has repercussions for the income distribution even if wages remain constant. The aim of this … inequality was indeed more due to demographic trends rather than changes in wages. Moreover, a large part of this increase is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872017
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Mehr Ungleichheit durch kleinere Haushalte? Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Da die Analyse von Einkommensverteilungen auf äquivalenzgewichteten Einkommen beruht, ist die Entwicklung der Einkommensungleichheit nicht nur Ausdruck für Veränderungen in der Entlohnungsstruktur, sondern auch für Veränderungen von Haushaltsgröße und -zusammensetzung. In den letzten 15...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615415