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We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax-benefit systems largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation elasticities using an IV group estimator that enables us...
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low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
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, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work … this complier-specific effect indicate that the response in informal employment is non-negative for the entire sample. …
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This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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the consequences of individual financial incentive changes caused by a pension reform in Germany on employment …
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-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high … document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in …
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poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential … employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to …
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Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
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administrative data sets. First, employment responses to SSC at the intensive margin are identified by a modified bunching approach … difference-in-differences approach is used to estimate the effects on gross earnings. I find employment responses to be …
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study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in …
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