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Lindbeck, Assar - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on … continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new light on the role and functioning of income insurance and makes it …

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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2021

Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...

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Job Security and Work Absence : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2021

We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...

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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care

Cremer, Helmuth - 2008

. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate … this effect. In the second period, individuals can devote part of their saving to improve their health status and thus … period health care decision: either individuals acknowledge that they have made a mistake in the first period out of myopia …

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An Up-to-Date Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Model

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2017

Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what their predecessor did, say, two decades ago. Now, there is essentially only one type of nonparental care, center-based care, and at the parental side fathers take a more...

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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2017

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...

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Optimal Income Taxation in Unionized Labor Markets

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2018

This paper extends the Diamond (1980) model with labor unions to study optimal income taxation and to analyze whether unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency...

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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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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker - 2010

We present a non-cooperative model of a family's time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to overprovision of the public good, spouses' failure to...

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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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