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Employment, hours of work and the optimal taxation of low income families
Blundell, Richard W.; Shephard, Andrew - 2011
different degrees of inequality aversion. We explore the gains from tagging and also examine the case for the use of hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307333
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Job Changes and Hours Changes : Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
Blundell, Richard W. - 2007
This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775845
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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
different degrees of inequality aversion. We explore the gains from tagging and also examine the case for the use of hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123920
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Two decades of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution
Belfield, Chris; Blundell, Richard W.; Cribb, Jonathan; … - 2017
We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively … the "new inequality" at the very top. Household earnings inequality has risen, driven by male earnings - although a 'catch …-up' of female earnings did hold down individual earnings inequality and reduce within-household inequality. Nevertheless, net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583577
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Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Blundell, Richard W. - 2014
In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057673
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Wages, experience and training of women over the lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Goll, David; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2019
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003766
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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
Blundell, Richard W. - 2014
in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this paper, we use rich Norwegian data to answer these important questions …'s income matters less for the dynamics of inequality over the life-cycle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059679
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Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: Panel data evidence for Britain
Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005
This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292936
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Job Changes and Hours Changes:Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women´s labour supply changes inresponse to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reformschanged individuals´ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply.We find evidence of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861861
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Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence
Arellano, Manuel; Blundell, Richard W.; Bonhomme, Stéphane - 2023
In this paper we use the enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 2005-2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption. We build on the nonlinear quantile framework introduced in Arellano, Blundell and Bonhomme (2017). Our focus is on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480421