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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

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 Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Marriage markets and single motherhood in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble Y. - 2006

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

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Collective labour supply, taxes, and intrahousehold allocation : an empirical approach

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2015

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...

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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003787158

Intra-household insurance and the intergenerational transmission of income risk

Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - 2024

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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Why do temporary workers have higher disability insurance risks than permanent workers?

Koning, Pierre; Muller, Paul; Prudon, Roger - 2022

Workers with fixed-term contracts typically have worse health than workers with permanent contracts. We show that these differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the Netherlands. Using unique administrative data on health...

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Do disability benefits hinder work resumption after recovery?

Koning, Pierre; Muller, Paul; Prudon, Roger - 2020

While a large share of Disability Insurance recipients are expected to recover, outflow rates from temporary disability schemes are typically negligible. We estimate the disincentive effects of disability benefits on the response to a (mental) health improvement using administrative data on all...

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Labour supply and commuting : implications for optimal road taxes

Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2009

A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas daily...

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What explains the variation in estimates of labour supply elasticities?

Evers, Michiel; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Vuuren, Danie͏̈l J. van - 2006

This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....

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The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay

Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

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