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Welfare evaluation of the 1986 tax reform for married couples in the United States
Picchio, Matteo; Valletta, Giacomo - 2015
This paper evaluates the welfare effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA86). In thirty years since its introduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346578
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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a … interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140124
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Evaluation of a tax reform : a model with measurement error
Euwals, Rob (contributor) - 2006
Parts of the Dutch tax reform 2001 are directed towards fiscal partners in a household and aim at lowering the marginal tax burden of the partner with the lowest (potential) labour income. An important goal of the reform is to increase the employment rate of these partners, which are in majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003473886
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Labor supply with social interactions : econometric estimates and their tax policy implications
Grodner, Andrew (contributor);  … - 2007
Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked to hours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group that considers demographics and geographic location. Instrumental variables estimates of the canonical labor supply model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557343
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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1978 - 2009 : a decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2011
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311991
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Taxation, aggregates and the household
Guner, Nezih (contributor); Kaygusuz, Remzi (contributor);  … - 2008
We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labor force participation of married females across skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656904
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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A reevaluation of the role of family in immigrants' labor market activity : evidence from a comparison of single and married immigrants
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Gotlibovski, Chemi; Kahana, Nava - 2009
Previous papers tested the validity of the Family Investment Hypothesis (FIH) among immigrants by comparing the labor … credit constraints are binding, then only married immigrants can cross-finance their investment within the family. In order … to a rejection of the FIH in both countries. -- Family investment model ; labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847131
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Technology and the demand for skill : an analysis of within and between firm differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Lane, Julia; … - 2007
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578359
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Frictions and the joint behavior of hiring and investment
Yashiv, Eran - 2012
The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … the investment part of the model is poor if hiring is left out completely or is introduced without the interaction between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548650