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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

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another household member. This paper investigates whether there is such an effect in a developing country. We use a rich data set for urban Ethiopia. We first give a brief description...

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

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in minimum wages, unemployment benefits and retirement regulation? Do the …

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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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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets

Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005

Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...

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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …

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