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Labour supply and taxes: New estimates of the responses of wives to husbands' wages
Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - 2012
In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...
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A Model with Endogenous Programme Participation: Evaluating the Tax Credit in France
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena - 2007
This paper provides new estimates of the impact of the French tax credit on the employment outcomes of women. We model simultaneously the employment probability and the determinants of programme eligibility. We improve on earlier studies in this field that, using a single evaluation equation...
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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers
Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...
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Worktime regulations and spousal labour supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labour supply by...
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Labour supply, work effort and contract choice: Theory and evidence on physicians
Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2010
data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276727
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Women and Part-Time Employment: Workers' 'Choices' and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries
Bardasi, Elena; Gornick, Janet C. - 2000
consequences of part-time employment among women across five industrialized countries - Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom … everywhere, ranging from 8-12% in Canada and Germany, to 15% in the UK, to as high as 22% in the US and Italy, meaning that part …
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Driving forces of the Canadian economy: An accounting exercise
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2008
productivity observed in the Canadian economy. The paper performs a decomposition of the labor factor for Canada and the United … distortions. Moreover, the milder reduction in the labor market distortions observed in Canada, compared to the US, is due to a … relative increase in effective labor taxes in Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280047
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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women's labor supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282285
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Vorausschätzungen für die Entwicklung der Gesamtbevölkerung und der Beschäftigung in Österreich bis 2035
Biehl, Kai; Fent, Thomas - 2007
This paper investigates the future development of the Austrian population for the period from 2005 to 2035. The main focus of our investigation lies on the working age population and its age structure. Our calculations are based on the population projection released by Statistik Austria in 2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352582
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Arbeitskräftepotenziale der deutschen Wirtschaft: Chancen für Wachstum und Konsolidierung
Hüther, Michael; Jung, Markos; Obst, Thomas - 2021
Der demographische Wandel stellt unsere Gesellschaft vor große Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig macht ein Rückblick auf die vergangene Dekade im deutschen Arbeitsmarkt deutlich, dass der Aufbau zusätzlicher Beschäftigung durch eine verbesserte Erwerbsintegration ein bedeutsamer Schlüssel zur...
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