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Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries

Clark, Andrew; Etilé, Fabrice; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763608

Evaluation of an In-Work Tax Credit Reform in Sweden: Effects on Labor Supply and Welfare Participation of Single Mothers

Aaberge, Rolf; Flood, Lennart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

welfare participation. The model accounts for heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences as well as for constraints in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233890

U.S. versus Sweden: The Effect of Alternative In-Work Tax Credit Policies on Labour Supply of Single Mothers

Aaberge, Rolf; Flood, Lennart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

accounts for heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences as well as for heterogeneity and constraints in job opportunities …

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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822599

Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...

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Labour Supply, Work Effort and Contract Choice: Theory and Evidence on Physicians

Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Shearer, Bruce S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...

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Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...

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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Heterogeneity in Multi-Stage Promotion Contests

Stracke, Rudi; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper shows that the incentive effects of heterogeneity may be positive rather than negative in dynamic contests … with multiple stages. In particular, the well-studied adverse effects of heterogeneity in static interactions are … compensated by positive continuation-value and selection effects. Due to these positive dynamic incentive effects of heterogeneity …

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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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