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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy
Fehr, Hans - 2011
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy...
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Heterogeneity in Needs and Negative Marginal Tax Rates
Bastani, Spencer - 2017
This paper highlights the possibility that negative marginal tax rates arise in an intensive-margin optimal income tax model where wages are exogenous and preferences are homogeneous, but where agents differ both in skills (labor market productivity) and their needs for a work-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942345
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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 displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
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Afriat's Theorem for General Budget Sets
Forges, Francoise - 2006
Afriat (1967) showed the equivalence of the strong axiom of revealed preference and the existence of a solution to a set of linear inequalities. From this solution he constructed a utility function rationalizing the choices of a competitive consumer. We extend Afriat's theorem to a class of...
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Spend-and-Tax Adjustments and the Sustainability of the Government's Intertemporal Budget Constraint
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah; Milas, Costas - 2021
We apply non-linear error-correction models to the empirical testing of the sustainability of the government’s intertemporal budget constraint. Our empirical analysis, based on Italy, shows that the Italian government is meeting its intertemporal budget constraint, in spite of the high levels...
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Size and Soft Budget Constraints
Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2021
There is much evidence against the so-called "too big to fail" hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...
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Feeling the Heat : Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2014
Does temperature affect economic performance? Has temperature always affected social welfare through its impact on physical and cognitive function? While many studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e.g. agricultural yield, violent conflict, or sea-level rise), few...
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
Jacquet, Laurence - 2011
We derive a general optimal income tax formula when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins and when income effects can prevail. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: their skill and their disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131346
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Rank Dependent Utility, Tax Evasion and Labor Supply
Eide, Erling - 2010
payers act according to some non-expected utility theory, and (2) Individual ethical norms and social stigma induce people … subjective probabilities of being penalised according to the rank dependent utility theory, and (2) Tax payers' beliefs about … utility theory. The model explains data 53% better than pure random choices and predicts hours worked in the regular economy …
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Beyond Ramsey : Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples
Meier, Volker - 2012
This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative...
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