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Commitment and the dynamics of household labor supply

Theloudis, Alexandros; Velilla, Jorge; Chiappori, … - 2022

The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of commitment: full, limited, and no commitment. We propose...

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Commuting, wages, and household behavior

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2024

of couples' commuting, wages, labor supply, and consumption. Using data from the PSID for the years 2011-2019, results … indicate a positive and highly significant correlation between wages and commuting when analyzed cross-sectionally. However …, changes in wages and commuting over an individual's life cycle are not related. Additionally, commuting appears to be …

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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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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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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 …

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Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply : working hours in the US, UK and France

Blundell, Richard W.; Bozio, Antoine; Laroque, Guy - 2011

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...

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