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How do parents allocate time? : the effects of wages and income

Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor); … - 2008

spouse, allowing for correlation across the errors of the ten equations. We exploit the rich information in the French time …

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Réforme du droit social et efficacité économique

Barthélémy, Jacques; Cette, Gilbert - In: Revue française d'économie : RFE 23 (2008) 2, pp. 57-85

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Modelling the employment and wage outcomes of spouses : is she outearning him?

Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....

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A model with endogenous programme participation : evaluating the tax credit in France

Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper provides new estimates of the impact of the French tax credit on the employment outcomes of women. We model … allow for hours responses. The data for the analysis are drawn from the French labour force surveys of years 1999 to 2002 …. We find no significant impact of the tax credit on either employment or hours of French women. …

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Does income taxation affect partners’ household chores?

Soest, Arthur van; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010

We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in households with two adults. We estimate a structural household utility model in which the marginal utilities of leisure and house work of both partners are modelled as random...

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Her time, his time, or the maid's time : an analysis of the demand for domestic work

Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2010

This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by each partner on routine household chores. By focusing on cleaning, laundry, and ironing, we...

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Information and communication technologies and skill upgrading : the role of internal vs. external labour markets

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - 2011

compelling evidence of external labour market strategies based on "excess turnover". In contrast, French firms heavily rely on …

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Joint leisure before and after retirement : a double regression discontinuity approach

Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - 2012

In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France,...

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Retirement and home production : a regression discontinuity approach

Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - 2011

Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...

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Training and age-biased technical change

Behaghel, Luc; Greenan, Nathalie - In: Annals of economics and statistics 99/100 (2010), pp. 317-342

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