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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. …

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Wage premium of fatherhood and labor supply in Japan

Yukawa, Shiho - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers (JPSC)1994-2006, we examine the effect of child birth on fathers’ wage rates and labor supply in Japan. We also compare effects of fatherhood among different cohorts by dividing the JPSC sample into two birth year cohorts (born in or...

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Poverty Reduction from Full Employment: A Time Use Approach

Bardasi, Elena; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

reduction in poverty, even at the relatively low current levels of wages and earnings enjoyed by the population. However, even …

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Labor Shortages Despite Underemployment? Seasonality in Time Use in Malawi

Wodon, Quentin; Beegle, Kathleen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Evidence for Malawi and other developing countries suggests the existence of labor shortages at the peak of the cropping season, with negative impacts on the ability of households to make the most of their endowments such as land. At the same time, for most of the year, there is substantial...

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How Mandatory Pensions Affect Labor Supply Decisions and Human Capital Accumulation? Options to Bridge the Gap between Economic Theory and Policy Analysis

Bodor, Andras; Robalino, David; Rutkowski, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Mandatory pension systems can have a negative impact on individual savings and labor supply decisions. In particular, defined benefit pension schemes that are not actuarially fair, can create incentives for early retirement, and therefore, reduce labor supply and the stock of human capital....

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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply: Evidence from East and West Germany

Pestel, Nico - 2015

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual of randomly matched spouses. Hypothetical earnings are predicted … is found after adjusting for labor supply behavior, while the effect is limited when earnings are taken as given. This …

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Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage-rate changes: Evidence from a field experiment

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Löffler, Max - 2016

The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...

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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance

Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer-Weckemann, Björn - 2023

lifetime earnings and future pension benefits. These consequences of caregiving are heterogeneous and depend on age, previous … earnings, and institutional regulations. Policy simulations suggest that public long-term care insurance policies are fiscally …

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Structural labor supply models and wage exogeneity

Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that relatively low labor supply elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be...

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Beware of the employer: Financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment

Lorenz, Svenja; Pfister, Mona; Zwick, Thomas - 2020

This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge...

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