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Gender Based Taxation and the Division ofFamily Chores
Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861090
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness:The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account forinterdependence within the family using data on partnered men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862075
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Fertility and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto - 2011
argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children … task particularly suitable for women and children. This in turn generates a preference for fewer children, lowering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461939
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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alesina, Alberto - 2007
Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. We study GBT in a model in which labor supply elasticities emerge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465001
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto - 2007
children need to have for their parents for over 70 countries. We show that strong family ties imply more reliance on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465603
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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences
Alesina, Alberto - 2005
Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the "experiment" of German separation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466972