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The return to work and how it is taxed : a dynamic perspective
Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2018
of working life, the expected FLRR and static RR differ by at least 5 percentage points for more than two thirds of women …, and by over 10 percentage points for over a third of women. These results are driven by returns to experience. In contrast … reduce the return to work, with the expected FLPTR and static PTR differing little for most women in our data. This mainly …
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Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers
Goll, David; Joyce, Robert; Waters, Tom - 2023
Policy-makers have increasingly turned to ‘in-work transfers’ to boost incomes among poorer workers and strengthen work incentives. One attraction of these is that labour supply elasticities are typically greatest at the extensive margin. Because in-work transfers are normally subject to...
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The labour supply effect of education maintenance allowance and its implications for parental altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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Social security incentives and human capital investment
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...
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Do parents tax their children? : teenage labour supply and financial support
Holford, Angus - 2016
This paper models child employment and parental pocket money decisions as a non-cooperative game. Assuming that the child human capital is a household public good and that the relationship between child human capital and employment is concave, we compare the welfare obtained under different...
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Do parents tax their children? : teenage labour supply and financial support
Holford, Angus - 2016
This paper models child employment and parental pocket money decisions as a non- cooperative game. Assuming that the child human capital is a household public good and that the relationship between child human capital and employment is concave, we compare the welfare obtained under different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515769
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Dynamic effects of educational assortative mating on labor supply
Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2016
In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a …
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Ageing, human capital and demographic dividends with endogenous growth, labour supply and foreign capital
Edle von Gäßler, Anne; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2017
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Career lotto : labor supply in winner-take-all markets
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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