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Behavioral Responses to Taxes : Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply
Eissa, Nada - 2012
Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...
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Country-Specific Preferences and Employment Rates in Europe
Moriconi, Simone - 2015
European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor … migrants to isolate the effect of culturally transmitted labor-leisure preferences on individual employment rates. If migrants … about 24% of the top-bottom variation in employment rates across European countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015117
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A Three State Model of Worker Flows in General Equilibrium
Krusell, Per - 2010
frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for … shocks play a key role in allowing the model to match the persistence of the employment and out of the labor force states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151365
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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes : The Role of Choice and Chance
Krusell, Per - 2010
employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the … effects of frictions on steady state employment relative to the simplest matching model, and two common extensions. We also … find that the presence of empirically plausible frictions has virtually no impact on the response of aggregate employment …
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Wage and Employment Uncertainty and the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Married Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2007
Over the past 30 years, research on married women's labor force participation has concluded virtually without exception that the principal source of labor force participation rate growth for married women has been the concurrent growth of women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777144
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Long Run Trends in Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in China
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2015
Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment rates according to its official statistics. This paper calculates, for the first time, China's...
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The Recent Rise of Labor Force Participation of Older Workers in Sweden
Laun, Lisa - 2018
This paper studies the background to the increase in labor force participation of older workers in Sweden since 2000. In the first part, we study how the characteristics of the elderly have changed with respect to health, education level and work environment, as well as the impact of joint...
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The Return to Work and Women's Employment Decisions
Maestas, Nicole - 2018
It is well documented that individuals in couples tend to retire around the same time. But because women tend to marry older men, this means many married women retire at younger ages than their husbands. This fact is somewhat at odds with lifecycle theory that suggests women might otherwise...
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Bartik Instruments : What, When, Why, and How
Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul - 2018
The Bartik instrument is formed by interacting local industry shares and national industry growth rates. We show that the typical use of a Bartik instrument assumes a pooled exposure research design, where the shares measure differential exposure to common shocks, and identification is based on...
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Labor Market Effects of Population Aging
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2021
, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …
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