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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014
by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and … marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948866
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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Tax Policy and Employment: How Does the Swedish System Fare?
Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Hakan - CESifo - 2011
-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853847
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Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities Based on Cross-Country Micro Data: A Bridge Between Micro and Macro Estimates?
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - CESifo - 2014
We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948808
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Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Goerke, Laszlo - CESifo - 2012
Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877685
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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What Explains the Variation in Estimates of Labour Supply Elasticities?
Evers, Michiel; Mooij, Ruud A. De; Vuuren, Daniel J. Van - CESifo - 2005
This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....
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Should Pensions be Progressive? Yes, at least in Germany!
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - CESifo - 2011
Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population ageing might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - CESifo - 2010
inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727303
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US Male Obesity from 1800-2000: A Long Term Perspective
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2013
This study compares two US BMI data sets, one from the 1800s and the other from the early 2000s, to determine how black and white male obesity rates varied between 1800 and 2000. The proportion of individuals who were obese rather than overweight is responsible much of the increase in obesity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690386