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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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Reducing the Excess Burden of Subsidizing the Stork : Joint Taxation, Individual Taxation, and Family Tax Splitting

Meier, Volker - 2008

Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an...

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Habit Formation and Labor Supply

Cremer, Helmuth - 2008

This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to 'unretire', i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...

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Is Prescott Right? Welfare State Policies and the Incentives to Work, Learn and Retire

Jacobs, Bas - 2008

This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...

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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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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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Technological Progress, the Supply of Hours Worked, and the Consumption-Leisure Complementarity

Irmen, Andreas - 2018

At least since 1870 hours worked per worker declined and real wages increased in many of today's industrialized countries. The dual nature of technological progress in conjunction with a consumption-leisure complementarity explains these stylized facts. Technological progress drives real wages...

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