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Status preferences and optimal corrective taxes: A note
Beckmann, Klaus; Gattke, Susan - 2008
We take issue with the argument expounded, among others, by Layard (2006, Economic Journal) that status-seeking preferences justify heavier taxation of income because this serves to internalise the negative externality that the pursuit of status imposes on others. In a model where status depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270403
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Status preferences and optimal corrective taxes : a note
Beckmann, Klaus; Gattke, Susan - 2008
We take issue with the argument expounded, among others, by Layard (2006, Economic Journal) that status-seeking preferences justify heavier taxation of income because this serves to internalise the negative externality that the pursuit of status imposes on others. In a model where status depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779044
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Work-sharing for a sustainable economy
Zwickl, Klara; Disslbacher, Franziska; Stagl, Sigrid - 2016
Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether worksharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418475
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Why Are Fertility and Women?s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the U.K.
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2004
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262024
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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2008
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777832
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How do parents allocate time?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid work, childcare, and housework- and wage and employment equations for each … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …. Women's non-market time is independent of their husband's wage; but both housework and childcare of fathers react positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377045
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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377363
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Do parents drink their children’s welfare? : intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia
Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251344
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The effect of child care and part time opportunities on participation and fertility decisions in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela - 2002
Economic models of household behavior typically yield the prediction that increases in schooling levels and wage rates of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405940
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Labor supply and child care costs : the effect of rationing
Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); Vuri, Daniela (contributor) - 2005
In Italy the participation of women has not increased very much in the last few decades relative to other developed countries and it is still among the lowest in Europe. The female employment rate stands almost 13 percentage points below the EU average and 22 below the Lisbon target. One of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257506