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Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions
Anderberg, Dan - 2021
This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...
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A continuous theory of income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
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A model of income insurance and social norms
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2006
A large literature on ex ante moral hazard in income insurance emphasizes that the individual can affect the probability of an income loss by choice of lifestyle and hence, the degree of risk-taking. The much smaller literature on moral hazard ex post mainly analyzes how a ?moral hazard...
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Parental Allowance Increase and Labor Supply : Evidence from a Czech Reform
Grossmann, Jakub; Pertold, Filip; Šoltés, Michal - 2023
We study the effect of a CZK 80,000 (36%) increase in parental allowance, a universal basic income-type benefit, on the labor supply of parents in the Czech Republic. Drawing a parental allowance does not preclude labor market activity, which allows us to study the income effect. After the...
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Unearned Income and Labor Supply : Evidence from Survivor Pensions in Austria
Böheim, René; Topf, Michael - 2021
We study the effect of lower unearned income on labor supply. To identify the causal effect of an unexpected reduction in unearned income, we exploit a policy reform that lowered survivor pensions in Austria. Men widowed after the survivor pension reform received an approximately 34% lower...
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Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes
Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022
We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by exploiting a Dutch pension reform in a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity design. A one-hour increase in grandmothers’ hours worked causes adult daughters with young children to work...
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Hours Inequality
Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022
The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper … inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation between the two. We use data for the US, the UK, France, and Germany over … the period 1991-2016 to examine the evolution of inequality in hours worked and of the correlation between individual …
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Real-Time: A Novel Method Applied to the Covid-19 Crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …
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Out of Work and Into School: Labor Market Policies and College Enrollment During the Great Recession
Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - 2014
The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...
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How do Governments Fare about Redistribution? New Evidence on the Political Economy of Redistribution
Padovano, Fabio; Scervini, Francesco; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution across countries. In particular, we first review available sources of data and measures of income redistribution, discussing the pros and cons of each one. Second, we outline a...
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