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The Supply of Hours Worked and Fluctuations Between Growth Regimes

Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021

Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...

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Co2 Emissions and GDP : Evidence from China

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019

This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …

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Is Finance Good for Growth? New Evidence from China

Chen, Jingzhu; Ji, Yuemei - 2022

We study the relationship between finance and growth using a sample of 275 Chinese cities during 2009-2018. We exclude a large amount of bank loans to local governments through the local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). This allows us to construct a new and better financial development...

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The Neoclassical Growth of China

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Ohanian, Lee E.; Yao, Wen - 2023

This paper studies China’s four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we … argue that China’s growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very … China’s growth path and the growth paths of other East Asia economies at a similar stage of development. The growth paths of …

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Why do Scandinavians work?

Andersen, Torben M. - 2010

Recent debates have suggested that taxation is very detrimental to labour force participation and employment. However, some countries - notably the Scandinavian - stand out as contradictions to this view since they have managed to sustain high labour force participation rate despite high tax...

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What explains the variation in estimates of labour supply elasticities?

Evers, Michiel; de Mooij, Ruud A.; van Vuuren, Daniel J. - 2005

This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....

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Tax policy and employment: How does the Swedish system fare?

Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2011

This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...

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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply

Boca, Daniela Del - 2020

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...

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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply

Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020

Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...

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Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply

Kunze, Astrid - 2019

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...

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