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Why are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective
Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006
This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337881
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The economics of human cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001545534
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What is the Source of the Intergenerational Correlation in Earnings?
Gayle, George-Levi - 2019
This paper uses a dynastic model of household behavior to estimate and decomposed the correlations in earnings across … generations. The estimate model can explain 75% to 80% of the observed correlation in lifetime earnings between fathers and sons … investment in children are the main driving force behind the intergenerational correlation in earnings and assortative mating …
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What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?
Gayle, George-Levi - 2019
lead to racial differences in labor supply and home hours of couples. Although both the black-white labor market earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012904044
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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2021
The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316071
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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2012
The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-speciffc way. With respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172268
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Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world : evidence from global microdata
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2021
precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650841
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En-Gendering Economic Inequality
Gilman, Michele E. - 2016
We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983556
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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities
Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income inequality across generations, and particularly how this can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637312