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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777154
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The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control
Cawley, John; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695858
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403373
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Intergenerational Mobility of Housework Time in the United Kingdom
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Zhu, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095505
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Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the impact of individual and household characteristics in explaining … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761916
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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566507
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Cooperative Household Models
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare … function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566789
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822063
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How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany
Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. In order to avoid these problems we explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822114