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Optimal Design of Earned Income Tax Credits: Evidence from a British Natural Experiment

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

different types of credits affect labor supply and earnings. This paper focuses on a 1999 reform to the UK tax credit system … they will have low earnings; single women; women in couples; and men in couples. Over a 15-month period, boosting the … credit appears to have raised the labor participation rates, hours, and earnings of those who were eligible to receive it. …

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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

What is the impact of raising the minimum wage on family incomes? Analysing the characteristics of low wage workers, I find that those who earn near-minimum wages are disproportionately female, unmarried and young, without post-school qualifications and overseas born. About one-third of...

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty

Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008

once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and …

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Re-Examining the Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants

Galloway, Taryn Ann - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008

Studies on the earnings assimilation of immigrants have traditionally focused exclusively on immigrants in employment … immigrants are able to quickly enter and remain in the labor market. This study thus re-examines evidence on the earnings … experience in the host country. The findings suggest that a major revision of previous conclusions about the earnings …

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Field of study, earnings and self-selection

Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...

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