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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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Painkilling drugs produce a good called relief which reduces the fixed level of bad (pain) the individual is endowed with. These drugs have the side-effect of reducing the utility the individual gets from consuming goods. This means that the shadow price of relief counts not only the cost of...
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household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of child workers, rather than for wages. In this study, we estimate a … household income function with child labour included as an input. Results using a variety of functional forms and alternative … working child is estimated at 4 to 7% of household income, although there is substantial variation with contributions ranging …
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The following highly-cited research monograph, although widely available in libraries, is now out of print: William A. Barnett, Consumer Demand and Labor Supply, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1981. In case you do not have access to the printed book, I have scanned it and put it online below. Since...
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This paper is concerned with the effect of household size on the allocation of household money and time to food … consumption. A broad literature has examined household economies of scale. Since food is a private good, it might be expected that … larger households, which could economize on shared goods such as housing, would spend more per equivalent household member on …
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According to New Home Economics, valuations of household production based on opportunity cost and market price methods …
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household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of child workers, rather than for wages. In this study, we estimate a … household income function with child labour included as an input. Results using a variety of functional forms and alternative … working child is estimated at 4 to 7% of household income, although there is substantial variation with contributions ranging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556106
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The paper presents a model of household labour supply that allows for simultaneous decisions of household members … estimated using the 1993 Bank of Italy’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth, and used to simulate three hypothetical tax … the reforms produce a larger household average disposable income, without worsening much the equality of the income …
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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 of who is unemployed within the household and find that they are mostly …
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