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Work Incentives and Labor Supply Effects of the ‘Mini-Jobs Reform’ in Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Empirica 32 (2005) 1, pp. 91-116
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005547430
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Peer Effects in Program Participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...
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Family Welfare Cultures
Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostol, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796735
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almas, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian over the period 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493554
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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the U.S. and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find evidence of … assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition analysis, where we quantify the … non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However, changes in assortative mating over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796671
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Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution, Work Incentives, and Household Welfare?
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 64 (2008) 1, pp. 115-142
empirical analysis is based on a behavioral microsimulation model, which integrates an empirical household labor-supply model …
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Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers and the family
Blundell, Richard W.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this paper, we use rich Norwegian data to answer these important questions …'s income matters less for the dynamics of inequality over the life-cycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230961
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The effect of housework on wages in Germany : no impact at all
Hirsch, Boris; Konietzko, Thorsten - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 2, pp. 103-118
"This paper presents evidence on the impact of hours spent on housework activities on individuals' wages for Germany using data from both the German Socio-Economic Panel and the German Time Use Survey. In contrast to most of the international literature, we find no negative effect of housework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731982
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Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments : Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study
Heinesen, Eskil; Hvid, Christian; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We revisit the identification argument of Kirkeboen et al. (2016) who showed how one may combine instruments for multiple unordered treatments with information about individuals' ranking of these treatments to achieve identification while allowing for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity...
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Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining
Bhuller, Manudeep; Moene, Karl Ove; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this article, we document and discuss salient features of collective bargaining systems in the OECD countries, with the goal of debunking some misconceptions and myths and revitalizing the general interest in wage setting and collective bargaining. We hope that such an interest may help close...
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