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Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins byreviewing unitary and bargaining models of intrafamily allocation, and then discusses thedeterminants of "bargaining power" in a world without taxes...
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When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising theamount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiencyof these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the firststage of which...
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Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively littleattention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its maincharacteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budgetsets are convex and...
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This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and …
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Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second …-best efficient not to distort the choice of education... …
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Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets(German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of itemnon-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means tocope with this type of measurement...
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This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent twoparts, we find that both components are important contributors to the total variance ofearnings. We also find that the...
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Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature ofthe latter....
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access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
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