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Families and social security
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2015
The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore augment the standard overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor productivity and longevity risk in that we account for gender and marital status. We simulate the...
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Optimal taxation in search equilibrium with home production
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2001
and 'services' are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and … services reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower …
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On the optimality of joint taxation with household production
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2001
The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...
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Home with mom : the effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes
Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - 2013
In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...
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Optimal taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2016
This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second...
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Nobody home : the effect of maternal labor force participation on long-term child outcomes
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - 2013
We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal data from Norway covering the entire Norwegian population between the years 1970 to 2007. The data allows us to match all family members and to measure maternal labor force...
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Women's labor market responses to their partners' unemployment and low-pay employment
Keldenich, Carina; Knabe, Andreas - 2018
Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women's labor market statuses and their partners' unemployment in … similar to that of his unemployment. …
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The supply of hours worked and fluctuations between growth regimes
Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021
Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...
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Automation, growth, and factor shares in the era of population aging
Irmen, Andreas - 2021
How does population aging affect economic growth and factor shares in times of increasingly automatable production processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform tasks to produce output. Tasks require labor and...
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Labor taxation in search equilibrium with home production
Holmlund, Bertil - 2001
Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …
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