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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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Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents

Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011

than the mother. We find no evidence that fathers' earnings and work hours are affected by paternity leave. Contrary to …

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How financial incentives induce disability insurance recipients to return to work

Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012

Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they return to work, and other countries are considering similar...

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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence

Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We show that there are increasing returns to education at the labor market...

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Labor supply as a discrete choice among latent jobs: Unobserved heterogeneity and identification

Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014

This paper discusses aspects of a framework for modeling labor supply where the notion of job choice is fundamental. In this framework, workers are assumed to have preferences over latent job opportunities belonging to worker-specific choice sets from which they choose their preferred job. The...

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Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence Among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms

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

How are hourly wages affected by the Earned Income Tax Credit? Two strategies are utilized to determine the relationship between the credit and hourly wages. First, I use variation in state EITC supplements, which magnify the effect of the federal EITC. I find that a 10 percent increase in the...

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