Similar Search Results

Working time reductions at the end of the career : do they prolong the time spent in employment?

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Thuy, Yannick - 2016

In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for selection and take dynamic treatment assignment into...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414625

Working time regulation, unequal lifetimes and fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2016

We examine the redistributive impact of working time regulations in an economy with unequal lifetimes. It is shown that uniform working time reductions, when uncompensated (i.e. constant hourly wage), can reduce inequalities in realized lifetime well-being between short-lived and long-lived...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586259

Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509636

Working time and employment under uncertainty

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2002

The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409991

Balanced growth despite Uzawa

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Oberfield, Ezra; … - 2016

Evidence for the United States suggests balanced growth despite falling investment-good prices and less than unitary elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa.s theorem to show that introducing human capital...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434429

Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624

Rank dependent utility, tax evasion and labor supply

Eide, Erling; Simson, Kristine von; Strøm, Steinar - 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/10008697806

Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013

Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764940

The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work

Felfe, Christina - 2009

This study is the first to estimate mother's marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872318

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602475

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last