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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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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …

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Dragon Children: Identifying the Causal Effect of the First Child on Female Labor Supply with the Chinese Lunar Calendar

Vere, James P. - EconWPA - 2004

Instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the effect of fertility on female labor supply have only been able to identify the causal effect of second and higher-parity children. This study uses exogenous variation in fertility caused by the Chinese lunar calendar to identify the effect of the...

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ISH: Hacia una Medida de la Satisfacción de los Hogares desde el Punto de Vista de la Oferta de Trabajo.

Marcelo, Darwin; Villa, Juan Miguel - EconWPA - 2004

El estudio de las preferencias es uno de los temas menos tratados por la econometría aplicada. En el presente artículo se pretende realizar una aproximación translogarítimica de las preferencias por medio de la construcción de un Índice de Satisfacción de los Hogares (ISH) con base al...

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Latvia: Working Too Hard?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU … accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime …

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Retirement Decisions of Older Czech Male Workers

Galuscak, Kamil - EconWPA - 2002

I analyze the effects associated with the introduction of the earnings test on older Czech males' labor supply in 1996. Using data from the Labor Force Survey, I apply a difference-in-differences estimator to measure the effect of the policy change in the Czech pension scheme using a sample of...

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The Price, Cost, Consumption and Value of Children

Bradbury, Bruce - EconWPA - 2004

Though they are related, the price, cost, consumption and value of children are not the same. This paper explores two aspects of the relationship between these concepts. Even if we restrict attention to the domain of commodity consumption, the cost of children is not the same as children's...

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The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples

Eissa, Nada; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - EconWPA - 2000

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Optimal Dynamic Nonlinear Income Taxes with No Commitment

Berliant, Marcus; Ledyard, John - EconWPA - 2004

We wish to study optimal dynamic nonlinear income taxes. Do real world taxes share some of their features? What policy prescriptions can be made? We study a two period model, where the consumers and government each have separate budget constraints in the two periods, so income cannot be...

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Heterogeneity and Aggregation in the Labor Market: Implications for Aggregate Preference Shifts

Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - EconWPA - 2004

The cyclical behavior of hours worked, wages, and consumption does not conform with the prediction of the representative agent with standard preferences. The residual in the intra-temporal first-order condition for commodity consumption and leisure is often viewed as a failure of labor-market...

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