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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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How do Parents allocate Time ?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...

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The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital

Groot, Wim; Brink, Henriëtte Maassen van den; Praag, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different measures of social capital: the size of the individual’s social network, the extent of their...

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Marriage Markets and Single Motherhood in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble Y. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A. Lans; Jacobs, Bas - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an important role in alleviating the tax distortions on...

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Seeing the World with Different Eyes

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

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The Importance of Financial Incentives on Retirement Choices

Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This dataset contains for the first time in Italy information on seniority. In accordance with the general finding in Gruber and Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an...

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Capital Markets Integration, Growth and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Analysis

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - Tinbergen Institute - 1997

The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous

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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, A. Lans - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cycle

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