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The labour supply of mothers
Turon, Hélène - 2022
of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to …
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528838
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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/10003934279
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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes
Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021
We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550274
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Hours, employment, and earnings of American manufacturing workers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Pencavel, John H. - 2021
For a century, two labor market empirical regularities characterized the movements of the hours of work, employment …. Increases in employment substituted for reductions in hours per worker. The implied elasticities of hours and employment with … understanding movements in hours of work and in employment of these workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486121
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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017
in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes to the international differences in hours worked in the data …. Through the lens of the model, taxes, together with wages and the educational composition, account for a significant part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607448
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Household labor supply and home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents
Bredemeier, Christian (contributor);  … - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794136
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The heterogeneous impact of short-time work: from saved jobs to windfall effects
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2021
care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply : theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721323
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Estimating the effect of an increase in the minimum wage on hours worked and employment in Ireland
McGuinness, Séamus; Redmond, Paul - 2018
per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880306