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-hours care, and may even prove harmful if incentives are not well-targeted. …
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This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … wage earners are, as predicted by the model, more sensitive to financial incentives. This implies that low wage earners …
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of the tax and transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the effects of …
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In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a … free choice over their hours of work. We then consider fixed costs of work, the complications introduced by the benefits … other hand, participation is quite sensitive to taxation and benefits for women. Within this paper we present new estimates …
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pensions to older people in the UK. Using recently released census data covering the entire population, we exploit variation at … population aging today, pension reforms aimed at increasing elderly labor supply, however, have to induce much larger behavioral …
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We measure the response of physicians to monetary incentives using matched administrative and time-use data on … services. Our results confirm that physicians respond to incentives in predictable ways. The own-price substitution effects of …
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International and U.S. IPUMS, the North Atlantic Population Project, and the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using twin births … findings: (1) the effect of fertility on labor supply is small and often indistinguishable from zero at low levels of income …
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We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …
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Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings …
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