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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe

Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012

Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...

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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...

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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …

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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Launov, Andrey - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: The causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a major change in child-subsidy policy in Germany in 2007 designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity leave benefit system that paid a maximum of 300 Euro for...

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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden

Forslund, Anders - 2009

Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...

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Labour supply incentives, and income support systems in Estonia

Võrk, Andres - 2009

, such as unemployment insurance benefits, parental benefits, a fully funded pension scheme together with earnings … or increase labour effort, affecting people both with low and high earnings. In case of unemployment benefits and early … long-term unemployment and it is vital that they are encouraged to return to the labour market. …

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Do reduced child care prices make parents work more?

Lundin, Daniela; Mörk, Eva; Öckert, Björn - 2007

This paper exploits exogenous variation in the price of child care stemming from a major child care price reform, to estimate the effects of child care costs on parents’ labour supply. The reform introduced a cap on the price that local governments could charge parents, and lead to...

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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-Yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - 2012

unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …

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