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can live in a nursing home, live alone in the community, or live with any child who has invited coresidence. The second … that family members cannot or will not make binding agreements at the first stage regarding transfers at the second stage …
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This paper extends the standard human capital model with real options. Real options influence investment behavior when risky investments in human capital are irreversible and individuals can affect the timing of the investment. Option values make individuals more reluctant to invest in human...
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income taxes and education subsidies in two-type models with endogenous human capital formation, endogenous labor supply, and … investment in human capital, whether general equilibrium effects are present or not. If skilled labor supply is more elastic than … unskilled labor supply, optimal redistributive linear income taxes are lowered as the distributional gains of linear taxes are …
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This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in … continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and … endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially …
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Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...
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We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successfully entering the skilled labor sector … in a Second-best setting. Contrary to standard models of income risk, it is not optimal to use a proportional wage tax …
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In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...
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linear labor tax rate and optimal linear education subsidies. The optimal income tax trades off social insurance against … at off-setting the distortions of the labor tax and internalizing a fiscal externality. Both optimal education subsidies … and tax rates increase if labor and education are more complementary, since education subsidies indirectly lower labor tax …
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We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.
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. If education is complementary to labor effort, education should be subsidized to offset tax distortions on labor supply … neither taxed nor subsidized. In particular, with non-linear tax instruments, education should be weakly separable from labor …
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