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Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
responses to the reform are entirely driven by the traditional substitution and income effects as in a unitary model. For some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067691
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Littératie financière et préparation à la retraite au Québec et dans le reste du Canada
Lalime, Thomas; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012
Dans cet article, nous démontrons, en utilisant des données de l’Enquête canadienne sur les capacités financières, que le Québec tire de l’arrière par rapport au reste du Canada non seulement en termes de niveau de littératie financière et d’éducation financière, mais aussi en...
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Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk
Delprat, G.; Leroux, M.-L.; Michaud, P.-C. - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
neutral with respect to longevity risk. Higher income households are more likely to be risk averse. We do not find evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633103
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Health Club Attendance, Expectations and Self-Control
Garon, Jean-Denis; Masse, Alix; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected attendance and how these relate to measures of self-control. We find that a large majority of contract choices appear inconsistent if we do not take into account the commitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676205
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The Income Effect under Uncertainty: a Slutsky-Like Decomposition with Risk Aversion
Antoniadou, Elena; Mirman, Leonard J.; Santugini, Marc - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
We study the effect of changing income on optimal decisions in the multidimensional expected utility framework with … changing income can be decomposed into a modified income effect linked to the classical income effect and an effect … representing attitudes to risk, modified by income. …
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Families, Insurance and Employment in Developing Agricultural Economies
St-Amour, Pascal; Vencatachellum, Desire - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1997
crop failure insurance from a less risk-averse adult. The family is the unique provider of insurance services yielding … overlapping generations framework, we equate a family to a contingent-claims contract. Families are endogenous by design. A risk … positive expected insurance rent. A monopsonist landlord extracts this expected rent through state-contingent tenancy contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670361
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Social Classes, Inequality and Redistributive Policies in Canada
Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
The social performance of fiscal redistributive mechanisms in Canada continues to receive a growing interest from politicians and research scientists. The aim of this paper is to assess the evolution of social classes in Canada and to check whether the market and governmental redistribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015263
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A Theory of Child Protection against Kidnapping
Orset, Caroline - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
This paper studies the microeconomics of child vulnerability to kidnapping in an environment where child protection is produced through a private effort, a public investment and a foreign aid. We first show that in absence of public investment and foreign aid, private investment in child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015296
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Longévité différentielle et redistribution: enjeux théoriques et empiriques
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - Chaire de recherche Industrielle Alliance sur les … - 2014
Dans cet article, nous étudions l'impact des différences de longévité sur la conception des politiques publiques, en particulier celles liées au départ à la retraite. Nous montrons premièrement qu'alors même que l'espérance de vie a augmenté de manière très importante tout au long...
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Durable Goods, Inter-Sectoral Linkages and Monetary Policy
Bouakez, Hafedh; Cardia, Emanuela; Ruge-Murcia, Francisco J. - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
sectoral comovement of production following a monetary policy shock and, under certain conditions, to aggregate neutrality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015287