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Comparing in-work benefits and financial work incentives for low-income families in the US and the UK

Brewer, Mike - 2000

The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare dependency and encourage work. Both the US and UK have made in-work benefits a key part of their strategy through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Working Families' Tax...

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Relative pay and labor supply

Bracha, Anat; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2012 - This version: July 10, 2012

relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to …

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Disability insurance : error rates and gender differences

Low, Hamish; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2019

We show the extent of errors made in the award of disability insurance using matched survey-administrative data. False rejections (Type I errors) are widespread, and there are large gender differences in these type I error rates. Women with a severe, work-limiting, permanent impairment are 20...

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The responsiveness of married women's labor force participation to income and wages : recent changes and possible explanations

Bradbury, Katharine L. (contributor); Katz, Jane (contributor) - 2008

to husbands’ wages and other family income. Now that the rapid rise in married women’s participation has slowed and even … through 2006, we find that the decline in responsiveness to husbands’ wages has come to an endat least for the time beingand … even find evidence of rising responsiveness to husbands’ wages. This increase in the cross-wage elasticity of participation …

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Measuring trends in leisure : the allocation of time over five decades

Aguiar, Mark (contributor); Hurst, Erik (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January 2006

inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete. …

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Measuring household spending and payment habits : the role of "typical" and "specific" time frames in survey questions

Angrisani, Marco; Kapteyn, Arie; Schuh, Scott - 2012 - This version: June 2012

We designed and fielded an experimental module in the American Life Panel (ALP) where we ask individuals to report the number of their purchases and the amount paid by debit cards, cash, credit cards, and personal checks. The design of the experiment features several stages of randomization....

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Wealth concentration in the United States using an expanded measure of net worth

Jacobs, Lindsay; Llanes, Elizabeth; Moore, Kevin; … - 2021 - This version: April 2021

Defined benefit (DB) pensions and Social Security are two important resources for financing retirement in the United States. However, these illiquid, non-market forms of wealth are typically excluded from measures of net worth. To the extent that these broadly held resources substitute for...

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An empirical investigation of labor income processes

Guvenen, Fatih (contributor) - 2007

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Foreign nurse importation to the United States and the supply of native registered nurses

Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2014 - This version: July 31, 2014

Importing foreign nurses has been used as a strategy to ease nursing shortages in the United States. The effectiveness of this policy critically depends on the long-run response of native-born nurses. We examine how the immigration of foreign-born registered nurses (RNs) affects the occupational...

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Wages, experience and seniority

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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