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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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Self-employment around retirement age
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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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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Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts
Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018
estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and reduced benefits by 20 percent, on average. In response, employment …
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The fallacy of "job robbing" : a meta-analysis of estimates of the effect of immigration on employment
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2006
resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 ….024 percent. However, the impact is somewhat larger on female than on male employment. The negative employment effect is also …
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337678
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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
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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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