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Commuting Time and Labour Supply: A Causal Effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker’s commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855350
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Commuting time and labour supply: A causal effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2011
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278752
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Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures : Evidence from a Multi-Country Study
Nunziata, Luca; Bowdler, Christopher - 2005
An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … movements in unemployment, import prices, tax rates and productivity is dampened, both on impact and dynamically. In contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262222
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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples
Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper presents a model of lifetime utility maximisation in which expectations of future marital transitions play a role in the determination of work hours. Married people with spouses who earn more are predicted to devote additional time to the labour market when they are confronted with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822442
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Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822535
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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences for singles and couples as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822599
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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822753
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An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Dependence in the Czech Republic
Guzi, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Paper demonstrates the existence of a welfare trap in the Czech Republic, created by the tax and social security systems. Combining individual data from the Czech Labor Force Survey and the Czech Household Income Survey, the analysis exploits the difference between the available social benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212758
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The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism
Holford, Angus J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198533
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Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
Cheng, Terence Chai; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterised by the number of working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201755