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The Gender-Specific Effect of Working Hours on Family Happiness in South Korea
Rudolf, Robert; Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
This paper uses detailed longitudinal data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) stretching from 1998 to 2008 to analyze the relationship between working hours and family happiness in Korea. The Korean labor market is characterized by high levels of gender inequality which is...
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Economic Development, Structural Change and Women's Labor Force Participation: A Reexamination of the Feminization U Hypothesis
Gaddis, Isis; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
A large literature claims that female labor force participation (FLFP) follows a U-shaped trend over the course of economic development. This feminization U hypothesis is motivated by secular patterns of structural change in combination with education and fertility dynamics. We show that...
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What explains uneven female labor force participation levels and trends in developing countries?
Klasen, Stephan - 2018
Rapid fertility decline, a strong expansion of female education, and favorable economic conditions should have promoted female labor force participation in developing countries. Yet trends in female labor force participation (FLFP) have been quite heterogeneous, rising strongly in Latin America,...
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Overweight and obesity in low- and middle income countries: A panel-data analysis
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
The rather small literature on obesity in developing countries mainly uses descriptive statistics and cross section … analysis to focus on rising income levels as the source of rapidly increasing obesity rates. This paper uses a new panel … the main driver of rising obesity levels. The results of the fixed effects estimation suggest that urbanization and …
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"Eat, my child". Overweight and obesity among children in developing countries
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn't found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …
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The path of labor supply adjustment. Sources of lagged responses to tax-benefit reforms
Jia, Zhiyang; Vattø, Trine E. - 2016
The standard static labor supply model ignores that it takes time for individuals to adjust to a taxbenefit reform. A labor supply decision model is developed that allows for lagged responses in terms of state dependence, stemming from preferences, labor market constraints and adjustment costs....
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Welfare Effects of Proportional Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Italy, Norway and Sweden
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar - 1996
This paper employs a particular labor supply model to examine the welfare effects from replacing current tax systems in Italy, Norway and Sweden by proportional taxation on labor income. The results show that there are high efficiency costs for Norway and low costs for Italy and Sweden...
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Means-testing the Child Benefit
Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor O. - 1999
Improving the distributional impact of transfers may be costly if it reduces labour supply. In this paper we show how effects of changes in the design of the child benefit programme can be examined by deriving information from behavioural and non-behavioural simulations on micro data. The direct...
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Reduced Tax Progressivity in Norway in the Nineties The Effect from Tax Changes
Thoresen, Thor O. - 2002
The inequality in pre-tax income increases in Norway in the 1990s, while the distribution of taxes is about unaltered. This means that tax progressivity has decreased in the period, as measured by summary indices of tax progressivity. This paper discusses to what extent this observed decrease in...
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Population ageing and fiscal sustainability: An integrated micro-macro analysis of required tax changes
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Holmøy, Erling; Strøm, … - 2004
Most studies on the economic consequences of ageing rely on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models that account for feedback mechanisms through changes in relative prices, tax bases etc. However, since individual labour supply behaviour is considered to be a key element in CGE-analyses of...
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