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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 labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show that profit sharing can also represent a Pareto-improvement if labour supply is excessive due to...
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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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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...
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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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Tax Policy and Employment: How Does the Swedish System Fare?
Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Hakan - CESifo - 2011
This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014
marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …
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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women
Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - CESifo - 2013
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in...
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Social Norms, Cognitive Dissonance and the Timing of Marriage
Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia - CESifo - 2007
We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage …: the raising age of marriage, the prevalence of assortative mating and the common occurrence of divorce in the early years …
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An Equilibrium Analysis of Marriage, Divorce and Risk-Sharing
Anderberg, Dan - CESifo - 2001
risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …
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