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Do medical doctors respond to economic incentives?

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2012

A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of part time/full time, hospital/primary care,...

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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011

A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...

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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India

Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...

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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...

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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …

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Abolishing the marital wage premium in Greece : employment and participation effects on minimum wage workers

Kakoulidou, Theano; Konstantinou, Panagiotis; Moutos, Thomas - 2020

We estimate the employment and labour force participation effects resulting from the abolition of the marital allowance - a 10 percent mandatory top-up in the Minimum Wage (MW) for married individuals - in Greece in November 2012. Using data from the Greek LFS over the period 2008:Q1-2016:Q1 we...

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Joint retirement of couples : evidence from discontinuities in Denmark

García-Miralles, Esteban; Leganza, Jonathan M. - 2021

We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension eligibility age. Next, we explore underlying...

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The cost of gender identity norms : evidence from a spouse tax credit

Giommoni, Tommaso; Rubolino, Enrico - 2024

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax policy that grants a large tax credit to main earners if their spouses, designated as “dependent spouses” by the tax law, report income below a certain threshold. Combining a...

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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing

Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

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Marriage and employment participation with wage bargaining in search equilibrium

Bonilla, Roberto; Trejos, Alberto - 2017

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and the marriage markets is numerous and varied. Despite … and labor market participation. We then analyze the implications of our results for a frictional marriage market allowing …

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