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Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
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The world's poor are seeing a rapid expansion in access to formal savings accounts. What is the source of savings when households are connected to a formal account? We combine a high-frequency panel survey spanning two and a half years with an experiment in which a Sri Lankan bank used mobile...
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Sleep must be considered subject to choice and affected by the same economic variables that affect other uses of time. Using aggregated data for 12 countries, a cross-section of microeconomic data, and a panel of households, we demonstrate that increases in time spent in the labor market reduce...
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Our study shows that the household production theory illuminates the behavior of households in the allocation of time and consumption expenditures. Among the noteworthy findings derived from our data, the various household non-market time allocations (consequently, market labor supply) cannot be...
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based upon spending cuts are much less costly, in terms of output losses, than tax-based ones. Fiscal adjustments have …
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fiscal adjustments in OECD countries from 1970 to 2007. Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth … than those based upon spending increases. As for fiscal adjustments, those based upon spending cuts and no tax increases … are more likely to reduce deficits and debt over GDP ratios than those based upon tax increases. In addition, adjustments …
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This paper uses a simple model of labor supply extended to allow for home production to understand the extent to which differences in taxes can account for differences in time allocations between the US and Europe. Once home production is included, the elasticity of substitution between...
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, while contractions are typically due to tax increases; ii) however successful (i.e. long lasting), a minority of the total …
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This paper deals with the international effects of taxation. Tax policies have profound effects on the temporal … understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework … international borrowing. We present stylized facts on the average consumption and income tax rates for the seven major industrial …
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