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How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job : evidence from a natural experiment
Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...
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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform increased the amount of benefits and introduced working requirements. Using a quasi-experimental model, Mogstad and Pronzato (2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786019
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The effect of child care on family structure : theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514787
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Single motherhood and the abolition of coverture in the United States
Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, Raymond Richard; … - 2017
Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and wages to her husband. Many U.S. states passed acts between 1850 and 1920 that expanded a married woman's right to keep her market earnings and to own separate property. The former...
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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage market value of young men
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018
earnings of young adult males. Consistent with Becker's model of household specialization, shocks to male's relative earnings …
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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination
Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021
characteristics of the Canton of Bern using household-level data. In particular, we exploit quasi-natural policy variation in voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694121
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The effect of benefits level on take-up rates : evidence from a natural experiment
Dahan, Momi (contributor); Nisan, Udi (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462116
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Does size matter? : the impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …
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Announcing climate policy : can a green paradox arise without scarcity?
Smulders, Sjak; Tsur, Yaʿaḳov; Zemel, Amos - 2010
Unintended consequences of a pre-announced climate policy have been studied in a variety of situations. We show that early announcement of a carbon tax gives rise to a "Green-Paradox", in that it increases polluting emissions in the interim period (between announcement and actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808232