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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141884
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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
Goerke, Laszlo - 2012
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behavior will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101198
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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; 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, Marten; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317635
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772005
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136684
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124970
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098952
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses
Jacquet, Laurence - 2012
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework where (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment are endogenous. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment elasticity rule. This rule depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108042