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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries

Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...

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Joint Labour Supply of Married Couples: Efficiency and Distribution Effects of Tax and Labour Market Reforms

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar; Wennemo, Tom - EconWPA - 2005

The paper presents a model of household labour supply that allows for simultaneous decisions of household members, complex and non-convex choice sets induced by tax and benefit rules, and quantity constraints on hours choice. The model is estimated using the 1993 Bank of Italy’s Survey of...

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The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

results from previous analysis which shows that the use of savings (by selling assets) and consumption smoothing are important …

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Looking for the Workforce: the Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in...

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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005

The commissioned study into the ageing of Australia’s population was released April 2005. The Commission found that one quarter of Australians will be aged 65 years or more by 2044-45, roughly double the present proportion. This gives rise to significant policy challenges. The Commission...

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Designing Optimal Taxes With a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is concerned with the empirical analyses of optimal taxation, adopting Equality of Outcome (EO) as well as Equality of Opportunity (EOp) as evaluation criteria. The EOp- and EO-criteria provide alternative methods for summarizing the efficiency-equality trade-off in the distribution...

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Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply

Colombino, Ugo; Aaberge, Rolf; Wennemo, Tom - EconWPA - 2005

During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature adopting this approach there are however two potentially important issues that are worthwhile...

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The Rise in Returns to Education and the Decline in Household Savings

Chanda, Areendam - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the consequences of rising returns to human capital investment on the personal savings rate. Over … to argue the presence of 'skill biased technological progress'. The literature explaining household savings has also … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative …

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SAVINGS MOBILIZATION ROLE OF NIGERIAN COMMERCIAL BANKS:AN ANALYTICAL POLICY STUDY

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN THE EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE OF THIS ROLE. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE …

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Estimating and testing intertemporal preferences: A unified framework for consumption, work and savings

Chin, William - EconWPA - 2004

profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly …

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