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A public good version of the collective household model: an empirical approach with an application to British household data

van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Maassen … - 2008

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goods are assumed to be...

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Bunching and non-bunching at kink points of the Swedish tax schedule

Bastani, Spencer; Selin, Håkan - 2012

Recent microeconometric studies of taxpayer' responsiveness to taxation have shown that intensive margin labor supply and earnings elasticities typically are modest and sometimes equal to zero. However, a common view is that long-run responses might still be large since micro-estimates are...

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Labor income responds differently to income-tax and payroll-tax reforms

Lehmann, Etienne; Marical, François; Rioux, Laurence - 2012

We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and payroll-tax schedules affecting individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate for...

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Why forcing people to save for retirement may backfire

Buetler, Monika; Huguenin, Olivia; Teppa, Federica - 2005

If individuals are unable or unwilling to borrow, a higher than desired second pillar pension capital may induce people to retire earlier than they would have in the absence of such a scheme. Individuals thus leave the workforce as soon as the retirement income is deemed sufficient and the...

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Early retirement : free choice or forced decision

Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2005

Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement based on international microdata covering 19...

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Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply

Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schonberg, Uta - 2021

Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of the German reunification. A...

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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model : An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021

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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions : An Experiment in India

Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid … information and a ticket enabling enrollment were given to the wife or to the husband, and cross-randomized the non …-ticketed spouse to one of three information sets. With no information, the ticketed spouse could plausibly deny the existence of the …

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Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-Ses Mothers : A Randomized Controlled Trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023

We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment...

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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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