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Annie E. Casey Foundation

KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures comprise an index of child well-being used to rank states and supplemental data on education, health, and economic conditions for each state. Data from the 2003 KIDS COUNT Data Book...

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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable acrosscountries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison ofelasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and theperiod of investigation....

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Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective HouseholdLabour Supply Model with Discrete Hours

Bloemen, Hans G. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

the collectiveapproach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costsof work. We … pooling of men’s earningsand the household’s non-labour income in the female’s budget constraint. These differencesin outcomes …

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BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis - National Economic Accounts

United States / Bureau of Economic Analysis

BEA’s national economic statistics provide a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. These statistics are best known by summary measures such as gross domestic product (GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending,...

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Freizeitsicherheit in der Schweiz

Mattig, Thomas; Schulte, Volker - 2004

Diese Broschüre gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Situation in der Freizeitsicherheit und zeigt die Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der Präventionsarbeit in der Schweiz auf.

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What Inspires Leisure Time Invention?

DAVIS, LEE N.; Davis, Jerome; Hoisl, Karin - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2009

This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure timeinvention,” where … over 3,000German inventors, we tested hypotheses on the conditions under which leisure time invention is likelyto arise …. Results suggest that the incidence of leisure time invention is positively related to exposure toa variety of knowledge inputs …

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Gender Based Taxation and the Division ofFamily Chores

Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...

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Physicians´ Multitasking and Incentives:Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within amultitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optionalmixed compensation system, combining a fixed per diem with a discounted (relative to thetraditional fee-for-service system) fee...

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Optimal Taxation:The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Basedon the theory of optimal …

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Tax Structure and Female Labour MarketParticipation: Evidence from Ireland

Callan, Tim; Soest, Arthur van; Walsh, John R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women´s labour marketparticipation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model formarried couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs of working and simultaneouslyexplains participation...

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