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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among "comparable households. We...
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SUMMARY While using financial incentives to increase fertility has become relatively common, the effects of such policies are difficult to assess. We propose an identification strategy that relies on the fact that the variation in wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among...
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[fre] Information asymétrique et émission d'actifs. . On dit souvent que les informations privilégiées dont disposent les dirigeants d'entreprise découragent les investisseurs potentiels et réduisent le volume des échanges sur le titre. Nous étudions la validité de cet argument sous des...
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[fre] Nous présentons un modèle de la participation féminine, qui prend en compte le temps partiel et l'effet du salaire minimum. Ce modèle est estimé sur les données de l'enquête Emploi de 1997. On l'applique à la comparaison de divers dispositifs d'incitation à l'emploi : l'allocation...
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[fre] Un large débat s'est ouvert dans les pays occidentaux pour modifier les systèmes de retraite basés sur la répartition. Il est souvent malaisé de déterminer les mécanismes à l'œuvre dans les études récentes, à base de simulations, qui cherchent à quantifier les enjeux. Nous...
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<p>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...</p>
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An optimal contract may involve randomization when the agents differ in their attitudes towards risk, so that randomization enables the principal to relax the incentive constraints. The paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for local random deviations to be welfare improving in a...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353423