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In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …
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We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...
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We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...
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We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...
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This paper examines the consumption response to monthly paycheck receipt. Since the amount and arrival date of paychecks are known in advance, the receipt of a paycheck does not coincide with the receipt of new information. Under the basic rational expectations Life-Cycle/Permanent Income...
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sector bias of sbtc during the 1970s and 1980s. The hypothesis is also strongly supported by more structural estimation on U …
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. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … (’selection neglect bias’). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
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into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany … different from all results found for the UK, where the overall response among men has always been found positive. Our estimation … results call for a high degree of caution as far as importingʺ UK-style Tax Credits to Germany is concerned. In-work support …
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Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ‘institutional regimes’, we estimate the short …-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women's employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …
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We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...
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