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Are survey data underestimating the inequality of wealth?
Meriküll, Jaanika; Rõõm, Tairi - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164547
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Optimal commodity taxation and redistribution within households
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2011
individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of … the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less the consumption of a certain group of goods: those for which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730373
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Covid-19, family stress and domestic violence : remote work, isolation and bargaining power
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Haddad, Joanne; … - 2020
We study the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that changes in work arrangements are related to self …-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote work on a large scale does not …
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Household formation, living alone, and not getting married in South Africa
Thornton, Amy - 2023
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A social network analysis of occupational segregation
Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - 2006
This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348714
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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
This paper analyzes the determinants of lay-offs, job-to-job movements and totalseparations with a unique data set that combines information on individual firmsand their workers. We are in particular interested in whether the lay-offpolicy of firms can explain the relatively high level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300551
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The pace of structural change, cyclical shocks and unemployment dynamics : simulations using an empirical flow model
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Dijk, Mark van - 1997
During the last decade The Netherlands witnessed an increase in the pace of job creation and job destruction. A sensitivity analysis using an empirical model of labour market flows shows thatthe congestion in the matching process due to the increase in the pace of job creation and destruction...
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Health insurance and the labor market with wage rigidities : insights from a laboratory experiment
Sherstyuk, Katerina; Dorj, Dolgorsuren; Russo, Gerard - 2014
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Worker flows in Russia
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2000
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Canadian labour market dynamics during COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
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