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Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation
Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...
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Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting from a joint to an individual taxation system in France....
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Cooperative Models in Action: Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize cooperative models of household labor supply for policy...
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The Impact of the German Child Benefit on Child Well-Being
Raschke, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the...
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A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Perali, Federico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Empirical models of labour supply adopting the collective approach have commonly used the decentralized representation and a reduced form specification of the sharing rule. This procedure has two crucial drawbacks that in principle make it inappropriate for the very same type of applications...
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Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?
Schettkat, Ronald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Akay, Alpaslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
salient. Using experimental data we show that salience affects young men and women differently, even after controlling for …
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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …
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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, the government, which does not observe the...
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