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Gender Based Taxation and the Division ofFamily Chores
Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861090
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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859745
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Lone mothers' participation in labor market programs for means-tested benefit recipients in Germany
Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms …, expectations that non-employed parents responsible for caring for young children should be ready for employment or labor market … institutions in Germany. Entries into labor market programs are analyzed on the basis of large-scale administrative data using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592279
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Lone mothers' participation in labor market programs for means-tested benefit recipients in Germany
Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms …, expectations that non-employed parents responsible for caring for young children should be ready for employment or labor market … institutions in Germany. Entries into labor market programs are analyzed on the basis of large-scale administrative data using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143601
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Large Panels with Common Factors andSpatial Correlations
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Tosetti, Elisa - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper considers the statistical analysis of large panel data sets where even afterconditioning on common observed effects the cross section units might remain dependentlydistributed. This could arise when the cross section units are subject to unobserved commoneffects and/or if there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939756
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Family Migration : A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859576
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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market IncentiveEffects of Extending Social Support in Poland
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by nowcomplete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemescompared to those found in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861416
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Family Bargaining and Taxes:A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation
Pollak, Robert A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins byreviewing unitary and bargaining models of intrafamily allocation, and then discusses thedeterminants of "bargaining power" in a world without taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861560
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Active labour market programmes for women with a partner : challenge or replication of traditional gender roles
Kopf, Eva; Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to …-scale administrative data, applying eventhistory analysis. Our findings are that in western Germany, assignments to activation programmes … do indeed replicate couples' prior division of labour in the household. In eastern Germany, by contrast, women in former …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939192
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Wealth shocks, credit-supply shocks, and asset allocation: Evidence from household and firm portfolios
Kick, Thomas; Ruprecht, Benedikt; Onali, Enrico; … - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2014
techniques, and instrumental variables estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957106