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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 …

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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 …

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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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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 …

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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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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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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

. Focusing on English, we also explore the heterogeneity in returns to different levels of proficiency by frequency of English …

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Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Polachek, Solomon; Das, Tirthatanmoy; Thamma-Apiroam, Rewat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

population wide estimate of the rental rate of human capital. To illustrate heterogeneity in the production of human capital, we …

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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the … OLF in all three previous months. This heterogeneity cannot be deduced from the one-month LFS or from one-month responses …

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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Dalgic, Basak; Güven, Aytekin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over...

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