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In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...
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In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...
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To balance work and family responsibilities, the Netherlands have chosen a unique model that combines a high female employment rate with a high part-time employment rate. The model is likely to be the result of (societal) preferences as the removal of institutional barriers, like lower marginal...
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Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...
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We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within amultitasking environment. In 1999 the … Quebec physicians to evaluate the impact of this change in incentiveson their practice choices... …
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This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Basedon the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometrictechniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfersystem for single women optimal...
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How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women´s labour marketparticipation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model formarried couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs of working and simultaneouslyexplains participation...
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Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked tohours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group thatconsiders demographics and geographic location...
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This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect onolder workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel datafor the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employedmale workers can...
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This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages byanalysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and netmarket wages...
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