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Using a Canadian-American Natural Experiment to Study Relative Efficiencies of Social Welfare Payment Systems

Tanguay, Georges; Hunt, Gary; Marceau, Nicolas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2002

We study whether social welfare recipients may end up paying more for their grocery if social welfare payments are more concentrated over time. We first present a theoretical model showing that lower incomes in general and a lower lower bound of the income distribution lead to less mobility for...

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Minimum Income Proposal in Québec

Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

In 2002 the Government of Quebec enacted Bill 112, known as An Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. It has also instituted an advisory committee whose role is to advise the government on policies that may have a direct or indirect impact on poverty and social exclusion. The Committee...

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Poisson Models with Employer-Employee Unobserved Heterogeneity: An Application to Absence Data

Angers, Jean-François; Desjardins, Denise; Dionne, Georges - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

function. We estimate the model to obtain the determinants of absenteeism using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the …

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Dionne, Georges; Dostie, Benoit - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

variations in such costs affect absenteeism decisions. We find an absence elasticity of -0.37. We also find unobserved …

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New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Dionne, Georges; Dostie, Benoit - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005

In this paper, we provide new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism using the Workplace Employee Survey (WES … work to include firm-level policy variables relevant to the absenteeism decision and uncerainty about the cost of … absenteeism. It also provides a non-linear econometric model that explicitly takes into account the count nature of absenteeism …

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Collective Labor Supply: a Single-Equation Model and Some Evidence from French Data

Donni, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005

In Chiappori's (1988) collective model of labor supply hours of work are supposed flexible. In many countries, however, male labor supply does not vary much. In that case, the husband's labor supply is no longer informative about the household decision process and individual preferences. To...

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On the identification of Frisch Labor supplies

Donni, Olivier - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by Heckman and MaCurdy.

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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons

Donni, Olivier - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production (Chiappori, 1997). We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored by the economist, welfare analyses will be probably distorted. Precisely, the identification of "collective" indirect utilities...

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Optimal Redistributive Pensions and the Cost of Self-Control

St-Amant, Pier-André Bouchard; Garon, Jean-Denis - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014

We examine how the introduction of self-control preferences influence the trade-off between two fundamental components of a public pension system: the contribution rate and its degree of redistribution. The pension regime affects individuals’ welfare by altering how yielding to temptation...

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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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