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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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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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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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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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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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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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What can wages and employment tell us about the UK's productivity puzzle?
Blundell, Richard W.; Crawford, Claire; Jin, Wenchao - 2013
This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752196
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332988
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Consumption inequality and family labor supply
Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2012
and find strong evidence of smoothing of male's and female's permanent shocks to wages. Once family labor supply, assets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629674
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Labour supply : a review of alternative approaches
Blundell, Richard W.; MaCurdy, Thomas E. - 1998
This chapter surveys existing approaches to modeling labor supply and identifies important gaps in the literature that could be addressed in future research. The discussion begins with a look at recent policy reforms and labor market facts that motivate the study of labor supply. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538104