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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians

Au, Doreen; Crossley, Thomas F.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004

health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …

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The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income

Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2004

It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio between estimated potential labor income and the welfare payment level on the probability of leaving social...

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Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy (1977-1998)

Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia - 2002

The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men?s employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …

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Does labor supply respond to a flat tax? Evidence from the Russian tax reform

Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2009

We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...

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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...

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Older men: pushed into retirement by the baby boomers?

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...

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Older women: pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...

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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply: the German experience

Caliendo, Marco - 2009

In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...

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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?

Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2011

In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...

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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity

Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011

This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...

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