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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...

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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination : The Gender Difference

Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...

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International Evidence on Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. e know little about the predictive power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data … to the happiness data the US ranks above France bI find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both …

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