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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden
M Gelber, Alexander - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
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A Description of Routes out of the Labor Force for Workers in Sweden
Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003
This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period...
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Holter, Hans A; Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy; Holter, Hans A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700373
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Self-employment and the local business cycle
Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
The business cycle is likely to be of importance for self-employment rates. When the economy is growing, business opportunities open up and encourage the set-up of new firms. In downturns, self-employment may be a way to avoid unemployment. The strength of these pull and push factors may depend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818832
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Self-employment and the local business cycle
Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
The business cycle is likely to be of importance for self-employment rates. When the economy is growing, business opportunities open up and encourage the set-up of new firms. In downturns, self-employment may be a way to avoid unemployment. The strength of these pull and push factors may depend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818879
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Intergenerational transmission of skills during childhood and optimal public policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...
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The Hausman-MaCurdy Controversy - Why Do Results Differ Between Studies?
Eklof, M.; Sacklen, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
The two perhaps most influencial empirical labor supply studies carried out in the US 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 irreconcilable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005638538
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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690421
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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 fathers’ take-up of parental leave benefits, but the gender earnings gap …
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