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Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
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with the design of employment contracts. …
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per cent between 2008 and 2011, but the greatest losses were strongly concentrated on the bottom and top deciles. Tax …
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While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud … differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to differing social norms. We define the concepts of benefit morale and tax … large micro data set of respondents from 29 OECD member countries, shows that benefit morale and tax morale have different …
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Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled … to low skill use and insufficient skill maintenance later on in life. High marginal tax rates and generous benefit … systems reduce labor force participation rates and hours worked and thereby lower the utilization rate of human capital. Tax …
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Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...
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composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
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administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim … males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …
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We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of … immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … and family migrants. We find that intermarried immigrants outperformed intramarried ones in employment rates and salaries …
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