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Employment and taxes
Nickell, Stephen J. - 2003
This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of...
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Does co-residence with parents-in-law reduce women's employment in India?
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023
We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …
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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 … from the Greek LFS over the period 2008:Q1-2016:Q1 we do not find any differential change in the probability of employment …
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Retirement, pensions, and ageing
Heijdra, Ben J. (contributor); Romp, Ward E. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497519
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Decomposition of demographic effects on the German pension system
Fenge, Robert; Peglow, François - 2017
The paper analyses the impact of demographic developments on the German pension system until the year 2060. The projections are simulated for a range of assumptions on the latest demographic trends and on the labour market and comprise the latest pension legislation. As a central innovation we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782034
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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
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Wind of change? : cultural determinants of maternal labor supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2021
Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of the German reunification. A...
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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA)...
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Women's labor market responses to their partners' unemployment and low-pay employment
Keldenich, Carina; Knabe, Andreas - 2018
participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners' employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women's labor market choices and outcomes …
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Workplace breastfeeding and maternal employment
Heckl, Pia; Wurm, Elisabeth - 2024 - This version: July 2024
maternal employment by 4% when children are in breastfeeding age. …
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