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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …
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Beware of the employer : financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment
Lorenz, Svenja; Pfister, Mona; Zwick, Thomas - 2020
normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than … of the bridge options. Therefore mainly employers with high employment adaption costs induced employees to use a bridge …
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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
downgraded employment, and of children to drop-out from education. While effects are stronger among vulnerable households …
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Money also is sunny in a retiree's world
Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas - 2020
This paper shows that labor income plays an important positive role for the decision to work after retirement. Especially individuals who have the chance to substantially supplement their pension entitlements have a higher earnings elasticity. Men are more attracted by earnings incentives than...
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this …
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Prekarität in Deutschland?!
Stuth, Stefan; Schels, Brigitte; Promberger, Markus; … - 2018
Vor dem Hintergrund der sozialen Marktwirtschaft wird Prekarität als eine Folge von arbeitsmarkt- und sozialpolitischen Veränderungen diskutiert. Es wird bilanziert, dass der soziale Zusammenhalt der Arbeitsgesellschaft in Deutschland gefährdet ist. Im Anschluss an diese Diskussion geht die...
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Menstrual health, worker productivity and well-being among female Bangladeshi garment workers
Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2019
We conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on a sample of 1,000 female garment workers in three factories in Bangladesh, off ering access to free sanitary pads at work to 500 of the workers. We cross-randomised participation in information sessions for hygienic menstrual health care...
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Alleviating unemployment traps in Finland: Can the efficiency-equity trade-off be avoided?
Honkanen, Pertti; Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2007
Using a new comprehensive tax-benefit model, JUTTA, this paper examines how labour supply incentives – both to participate in the labour force (the “extensive” margin) and to supply extra hours of work (the “incentive” margin) – have changed in Finland in 1995-2007. The results...
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Participation Tax Rates in Finland, Earnedincome Tax Credit Investigated
Mauri, Kotamäki - 2016
average PTR is plugged into a search theoretic general equilibrium model, and an employment effect is estimated. Also a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503060
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Financial Incentives to Work Decomposed: The Finnish Case
Kotamäki, Mauri; Ollonqvist, Joonas - 2018
This paper analyses financial incentives to work in Finland from three perspectives. First, the financial incentives to work are quantified i.e. the participation tax rate (PTR) levels are calculated with numerous classifications. Second, a question of how different parts of the tax and social...
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