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Product market regulation and market work: A benchmark analysis
Fang, Lei; Rogerson, Richard - 2009
Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We … examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation as well as … in a standard dynamic model of entry and exit. We find that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work …
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The Future of Social Security
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2007
We analyze the effect of the projected demographic transition on the political support for social security, and equilibrium outcomes. Embedding a probabilistic-voting setup of electoral competition in the Diamond (1965) OLG model, we find that intergenerational transfers arise in the absence of...
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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfer system, we perform a comparative...
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The impact of 9/11 on hours of work in the United States
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pavlova, Olga - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to determine whether workers’ commitment to the labor force declined after 9/11, as many popular press accounts at the time suggested it would. The results indicate that any measured decline in hours spent working was the result of economic conditions rather than...
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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...
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The effects of marginal employment on subsequent labour market outcomes
Böheim, René; Weber, Andrea - 2006
below a certain threshold. We ask if the unemployed who start marginal jobs face better labour market outcomes than those … who do not work. A priori it is not clear if those who work in marginal employment improve their labour market status, e … of marginal employment on their labour market outcomes, by means of propensity score matching. Our results suggest that …
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14 … issues with mixed results. The labour market reforms have addressed the rigidity of the labour market by making it easier for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273928
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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden
Forslund, Anders - 2009
participation of the elderly. Active labour market policies may contribute to high labour force participation, but cannot be relied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273954
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Technology, institutions and allocation of time in Swedish households 1920 - 1990
Svensson, Lars - 2008
-1990. Much of that time was gradually transferred to the labour market, but no evidence can be found for an increase in leisure … constituted an impediment to labour market entry. Increased returns to market work induced women who did not face this restriction … to allocate more time to the labour market from the mid-1940s. A set of new formal and informal institutions associated …
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
the private sector, and a unification of the different labour market programmes. …
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