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Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …
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of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …
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In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The … equally weighted in the household utility function; (3)Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are explanatory … for how individualutilities are weighted in the household utility function. (4) The female's preference forhousehold …
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!o them, as is predicted by household location theory. …
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preference for total household production is influenced by family size for the female but not for the male (6). Both males and …In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household …
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male; (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important … time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the …
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This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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We present an equilibrium-search model with heterogenous workers whosearch for a job in one of two sectors and who lose part of theirskills during unemployment. We show that an import tariff increasethe wage and the employment prospects in the protected sector. Thisresults in a labor market...
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of a marriage of a daughter is affected by the economic conditions of the household from which she originates. We … distinguish household specific wealth levels and two types of shocks: correlated (weather) shocks and idiosyncratic (wealth … support the hypothesis that the timing of marriage is affected by household characteristics; girls from households that …
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