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Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Income taxation in an empirical collective household labour supply model with discrete hours

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2010

Most empirical studies on 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379628

Nevertheless, they persist : cross-country differences in homeownership behavior

Huber, Stefanie J.; Schmidt, Tobias - 2022 - Version: November 26, 2021

Cross-country differences in homeownership rates are large and persistent over time, with homeownership rates ranging from 44% in Switzerland to 83% in Spain. This paper investigates whether cultures-defined as behavioral attitudes passed across generations-may value homeownership differently,...

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Self-employment around retirement age

Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010

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A collective household model of time allocation : a comparison of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2006

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...

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The economics of co-ethnic employment : incentives, welfare effects and policy options

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - 2004

Co-ethnic employment refers to the stylised fact of many labour markets that there is an over-representation of workers … constitute the major reasons for co-ethnic employment by lowering information and co-ordination costs. In the short run, co …-ethnic employment leads to more jobs for employees, easy access to labour for ethnic minority firms, strengthening of the group values …

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A collective household model of time allocation : a comparison of native Dutch and immigrant households in The Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2006

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Altruism to strangers for our own sake : domestic effects from immigration

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376279

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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