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We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and … approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage elasticities are relatively small and much more uniform across … elasticities are extremely small everywhere. Finally, the results for cross-wage elasticities in couples are opposed between …
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In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married … how the magnitude of the estimated elasticities varies depending on whether net or gross wages and income are used in the … rates vary significantly over the sample, we use quantile regressions to compare elasticities at different points of the …
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We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
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the price of crude oil. Most of the GCC countries rank in the top 20 remitting countries in the world. We find that oil … price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real …
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supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological … choices in explaining the large variation in elasticity size observed across studies. While some recent studies show that … explain larger elasticities in older studies (i.e. an increase in female labor market attachment over time and a switch from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329211
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper …, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to … common empirical approach and a complete simulation of tax-benefit policies affecting household budgets. We find that wage-elasticities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278479
supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological … choices in explaining the large variation in elasticity size observed across studies. While some recent studies show that … explain larger elasticities in older studies (i.e. an increase in female labor market attachment over time and a switch from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884275
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and … approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage elasticities are relatively small and much more uniform across … elasticities are extremely small everywhere. Finally, the results for cross-wage elasticities in couples are opposed between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252285
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper …, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to … common empirical approach and a complete simulation of tax-benefit policies affecting household budgets. We find that wage-elasticities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151029
effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment incentives) and an index of hiring and firing costs (proxying exit … manufacturing is negatively affected by the level of profit taxation and exit costs. Hence, if countries want to attract FDI it may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265567