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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants

Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2015

Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...

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Optimal taxation : the design of child related cash- and in-kind-benefits

Haan, Peter (contributor); Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2007

taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current …

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Family and labor market choices : requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012

Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the … levels among families with children. -- microsimulation ; labor supply ; fertility ; evidence-based policy …

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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers

Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of extended leave durations. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major...

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The wage elasticity of recruitment

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Manning, Alan; … - 2022

One of the factors likely to affect the market power of employers is the sensitivity of the flow of recruits to the offered wage, but there is very little research on this. This paper presents a methodology for estimating the wage elasticity of recruitment and applies it to German data. Our...

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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state

Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2009

There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...

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Peer effects in program participation

Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...

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Family welfare cultures

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...

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The impact of local public services and geographical cost of living differences on poverty estimates

Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - 2008

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...

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Robust inequality comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …

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