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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. -- Employment ; fertility ; financial incentives …In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904913
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A structural approach to estimating the effect of taxation on the labor market dynamics of older workers
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2009
of the tax and transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830314
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716521
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Multi-family households in a labour supply model : a calibration method with application to Poland
Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2008
method to Polish labour market data. -- Work incentives ; within-household sharing ; labour supply ; transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741919
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Gender differences in the distribution of total work-time of Latin-American families : the importance of social norms
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2015
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501875
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Does income taxation affect partners’ household chores?
Soest, Arthur van; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010
the financial incentives. Women's time allocation is more responsive to the own and the partner’s wage rate than men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985866
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Her time, his time, or the maid's time : an analysis of the demand for domestic work
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2010
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by each partner on routine household chores. By focusing on cleaning, laundry, and ironing, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153573
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Joint leisure before and after retirement : a double regression discontinuity approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - 2012
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558927
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Retirement and home production : a regression discontinuity approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - 2011
Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523457
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Household consumption at retirement : a regression discontinuity study on French data
Moreau, Nicolas; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2013
Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204498