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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2015
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...
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Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2015
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513151
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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2015
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488817
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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - 2014
income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341003
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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968539
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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - 2014
income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404597
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Reform proposal for marriage taxation in Germany : de facto income splitting with a low transferable amount
Bach, Stefan; Fischer, Björn; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 41/42, pp. 423-432
Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301541
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Making work pay: Increasing labour supply of secondary earners in low income families with children
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Contemporary Economics 11 (2017) 2, pp. 161-170
In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing the labor supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time, these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995299
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Family and labor market choices: Requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012
Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287271
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Family and labor market choices: Requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012
Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289900