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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden
M Gelber, Alexander - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
models in which the family maximizes a single utility function. A standard econometric specification, in which one spouse … three, and income effects are of the wrong sign. A second common specification, in which overall family income is related to … the family's tax rate and income, also yields substantially over-estimated own compensated and uncompensated elasticities …
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Maternal Addiction to Parental Leave
Engström, Per; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
parents to increase the father’s share of the family’s parental leave time. However, regulations in terms of father’s quotas … should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family’s leave time. …
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Labour Supply Responses to Paid Parental Leave
Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...
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Inequality Generating Processes and Measurement of the Matthew Effect
Bask, Miia; Bask, Mikael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
The first aim of this paper is to clarify the differences and relationships between cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the Matthew effect. Its second aim, which is also its main contribution, is not only to present a new measure of the Matthew effect, but also to show how to estimate this...
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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+
Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household’s disposable annual income is used. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in...
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Early retirement and post retirement health
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per; Josephson, Malin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...
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The marginal propensity to earn and consume out of unearned income: Evidence using an unusually large cash grant reform
Bengtsson, Niklas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
We use a rapid introduction of an unconditional cash grant (child support) in South Africa to estimate the marginal propensity to consume and earn out of unearned income. We find that the marginal propensity to earn is about –0.3 and the marginal propensity to consume about 0.7. Nothing of the...
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Social Insurance and Retirement: A Cross-Country Perspective
Laun, Tobias; Wallenius, Johanna - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
In this paper we study the role of social insurance, namely old-age pensions, disability insurance and healthcare, in accounting for the differing labor supply patterns of older individuals across OECD countries. To this end, we develop a life cycle model of labor supply and health with...
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The Hausman-MaCurdy Controversy - Why do results differ between studies?
Eklöf, Matias; Sacklén, Hans - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
The two perhaps most influential empirical labor supply studies carried out in the U.S. in recent years, Hausman (1981) and MaCurdy, Green & Paarsch (1990), report sharply contradicting labor supply estimates. In this paper we seek to uncover the driving forces behind the seemingly...
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Unemployment Benefits and Optimal Non-Linear Income Taxation
Engström, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003
This paper explores the rationale for unemployment benefits as a complement to optimal non-linear income taxation. High-skilled workers and low-skilled workers face different exogenous risks of being unemployed. As long as the low-skilled workers face a higher unemployment risk, we find that...
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