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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform : Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
support can be mustered without hurting equity too much. We also investigate the effects of Germany meeting its legal target …
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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
substantially improves intra-household gender equality in terms of child care duties and earnings …
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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform: Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
support can be mustered without hurting equity too much. We also investigate the effects of Germany meeting its legal target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799698
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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020
piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters. When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor …
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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply
Kesternich, Iris - 2020
Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...
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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 bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
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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
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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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Giupponi, … - 2023
We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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Inheritance Taxation and Wealth Effects on the Labor Supply of Heirs
Kindermann, Fabian - 2019
The taxation of bequests can have a positive impact on the labor supply of heirs through wealth effects. This leads to an increase in future labor income tax revenue on top of direct bequest tax revenue. We first show in a theoretical model that a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation, based...
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