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This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...
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In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
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There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship … Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household debt (measured by credit card indebtedness and having trouble paying bills …
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poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … behaviour and on household cohesion. Apart from its economic significance, the existence of such feedback effects is interesting …
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This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …
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institutions are underdeveloped and there is a very limited social safety net, while household structure closely resembles that …
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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …
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We assess the labour supply effects of two 'making work pay' reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favour of policies that distinguish between low effort and low productivity by targeting individuals with low wages rather than individuals with low earnings. In assessing the policies we...
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A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for models with missing covariate data where the dependent variable is binary. For the benchmark case of...
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