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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
. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … study the impact of two mechanisms on labor supply: (i) differences in marriage stability and (ii) differences in tax … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …
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Why has home ownership fallen among the young?
Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Gervais, Martin - 2010
We document that home ownership of households with 'heads' aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001-2005 housing boom. The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities seemingly made it...
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Insured by the partner?
Olsson, Marton; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2010
This paper investigates whether the partner's social insurance coverage affects spousal labor supply. Using a reform which increased the sickness insurance coverage for non-government workers, the spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner's benefit is estimated to 0.4....
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The effects of marginal employment on subsequent labour market outcomes
Böheim, René; Weber, Andrea - 2006
We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, marginal employment, for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is below a certain threshold. We ask if the unemployed...
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Technology, institutions and allocation of time in Swedish households 1920 - 1990
Svensson, Lars - 2008
The modernisation of Swedish households during the twentieth century prompted a considerable productivity growth in household production, which reduced the time input for a fixed volume of routine household work by about 35 per cent 1920-1990. Much of that time was gradually transferred to the...
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave
Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012
Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...
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Unterhalt, Obsorge und Scheidungsanwälte: Eine ökonometrische Untersuchung der einvernehmlichen Scheidung in Österreich.
Halla, Martin - 2004
Im Jahr 2003 wurden 88,4% aller Scheidungen in Österreich im Einvernehmen geschieden. Die einvernehmliche Scheidung erfordert
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Bargaining at divorce: The allocation of custody
Atteneder, Christine; Halla, Martin - 2006
We model the bargaining process of parents over custody at the time of divorce. First we assume an institutional setting where only sole custody is available. In a second step we reform this institutional setting and introduce the possibility of joint custody. We show that some parents, who...
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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …
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