policies and strategies with the potential to modify risky health behaviors, such as taxes or subsidies, cash incentives …

In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married … how the magnitude of the estimated elasticities varies depending on whether net or gross wages and income are used in the … rates vary significantly over the sample, we use quantile regressions to compare elasticities at different points of the …

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household … subsidies in terms of increasing average hours worked and household income. However, tax credits disproportionately benefit … wealthier and more educated women. Price subsidies, while less efficient, have positive re-distributional effects. …

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level …

leaving total working hours unchanged. The magnitudes of the own-sector and cross-sector earnings elasticities fall in the …

Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on … overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is to look at the motives lying behind the adoption of energy subsidies … then looks at the characteristics of countries that use energy subsidies. Countries with weak institutions – often non …

: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … long-term unemployed) and are provided only for a limited period of time. The low-wage subsidies, on the other hand, are … relative to low-wage subsidies. Conversely, the greater the danger that workers come to be trapped in dead-end jobs with flat …

location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We …