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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives
Gelber, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax …. Standard econometric specifications may substantially mis-estimate earnings responses to taxation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636473
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Employer responses to family leave programs
Ginja, Rita; Karimi, Arizo; Xiao, Pengpeng - 2020
Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A t hree-month parental l eave e xpansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence and exit. The reform increased women's leave duration and likelihood of separating from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660608
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An investigation into the positive effect of an educated wife on her husband’s earnings: the case of Japan in the period between 2000 and 2003.
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025312
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Parental leave and mother's careers: The relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analía; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316929
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When does improving health raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Lester, Ashley; Weil, David N. - 2008
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284028
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Dependent Elderly and Gender Equality in Bulgaria
Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper describes the current provisions, employment implications and policy options for care for elderly people in Bulgaria. The aging of the Bulgarian population makes this problem quite sensitive for the society and important from policy point of view. That is because the elderly people are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260590
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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we explore the relationship between the influence of wives’ human capital on their husbands’ earnings … capital has a positive effect on her husband’s earnings regardless of her work status when the entire sample is used … wife’s labor participation drastically reduces the positive effect of her human capital on her husband’s earnings after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560974
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835397
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The effect of all-day primary school programs on maternal labor supply
Nemitz, Janina - 2015
This study analyzes the effect of all-day (AD) primary school programs on maternal labor supply. To account for AD school selectivity and selection into AD primary school programs I estimate bivariate probit models. To identify these models I exploit variation in the allocation of investments to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420554
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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615043