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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. In- terpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
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Flexible Work Arrangements and Precautionary Behavior: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Orland, Andreas; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020
In the past years, work time in many industries has become increasingly flexible opening up a new channel for intertemporal substitution. To study this, we set up a two-period model with wage uncertainty. This extends the standard savings model by allowing a worker to allocate a fixed time...
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Health shocks and spousal labor supply: An international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
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Fertility, Family Policy, and Labor Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from France
Elmallakh, Nelly - 2021
This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the amount of child allowances on household income. Relying on Regression Discontinuity Design and administrative income data, the paper finds that restricting family allowance...
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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Constrained vs Unconstrained Labor Supply: The Economics of Dual Job Holding
Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Renna, Francesco - 2017
This paper develops a unified model of dual and unitary job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. The model incorporates both constrained and unconstrained labor supply. Panel data methods are adapted to accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually...
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Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians are Paid?
Altindag, Duha T.; Filiz, S. Elif; Tekin, Erdal - 2017
politician salaries on their performance using a unique law change implemented in 2012 in Turkey. Specifically, the members of … the parliament (MPs) in Turkey who are retired from their pre-political career jobs earn a pension bonus on top of their … of the President of Turkey, while keeping the salaries of non-retired MPs unchanged. By exploiting the variation in total …
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Cash Transfers and Labor Supply: New Evidence on Impacts and Mechanisms
Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Tarp, Finn - 2023
We study the impact of a national cash transfer program in Vietnam on labor supply using large household surveys and a regression-discontinuity design based on discontinuity in age eligibility. We do not find evidence of a disincentive effect of the cash transfer on labor supply for adults aged...
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Theory and Empirics of Short-Time Work: A Review
Bermudez, Natalia; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Tarullo, Giulia - 2023
Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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The World’s Oldest Profession? Employment-Age Profiles from the Transactional Sex Market
Wilson, Nicholas - 2017
Standard labor market models predict that the likelihood of employment increases, hours worked increase, and … individuals transition from less-skilled and temporary jobs to more skilled and more stable employment as they age. I examine the … general population surveys asking women about transactional sex and a relatively high documented prevalence of employment in …
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