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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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Changes in the labor supply behavior of married women: 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2006

observed in the 1980s, with an additional factor being that husbands' real wages fell slightly in the 1980s but rose in the … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 … wages and work hours; and omitted variables that affect both wage offers and the propensity to work; as well as when age …

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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...

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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335

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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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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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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