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Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

in the usual way, and an unconventional one allowing them to qualify for a pension by having children, and investing time …

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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives … misrepresent their true ability by investing less in their children, and having a lower number of children. The second-best policy … induces more able parents to have the first-best number of children, and to invest in each child at the first-best level. Less …

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing

Cigno, Alessandro; Giannelli, Gianna C.; Rosati, Furio C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

, and on the amount given, if the potential giver is under the age of retirement and has children, but no significant effect … if the person has no children, or is over the retirement age. This rejects the hypothesis that money transfers are …

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The Supply of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...

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Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental …

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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …

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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage : The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

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