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I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...
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The direct financial impact of the financial crisis has been to deal a heavy blow to investment-based pensions; many workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial sector implosion produced an economic crisis for the rest of the economy via high unemployment and...
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The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to “banking” benefits for future use), a...
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This paper studies consumption and labor supply in a model where agents have partial insurance and face risk and initial heterogeneity in wages and preferences. Equilibrium allocations and variances and covariances of wages, hours and consumption are solved for analytically. We prove that all...
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We use anticipated changes in tax rates associated with changes in family composition to estimate intertemporal labor … supply elasticities and elasticities of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax wage rate. Changes in the ages of … children can affect marginal tax rates through provisions of the tax code that are tied to child age and dependent status. We …
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This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how Philippine migrants%u2019 return decisions respond to major, unexpected exchange rate changes in their overseas locations (due to the Asian financial crisis). Overall, the evidence...
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We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated life-cycle model with flexible labor supply. Our framework allows for wage rate uncertainly, variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky...
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We study the effects of on-the-job skill accumulation on average hours worked by age and the volatility of hours over the life cycle in a calibrated general equilibrium model. Two forms of skill accumulation are considered: learning by doing and on-the-job training. In our economy with learning...
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use it to assess the consequences of changes in tax and transfer policies on equilibrium hours of work. We find that …
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determine a) total marginal net tax rates on current labor supply, b) total net marginal tax rates on life-cycle labor supply, c …) total net marginal tax rates on saving, and d) the tax-arbitrage opportunities available from contributing to retirement … and state personal income taxes, the FICA payroll tax, federal and state corporate income taxes, federal and state sales …
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