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Equilibrium search and the impact of equal opportunities for women
Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Francesconi, Marco - 2017
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...
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Social Norms and Household Time Allocation
Fernández, Cristina; Sevilla Sanz, Almudena - 2008
Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female housework time. However, longitudinal and crosssectional evidence seems to contradict this implication. Women's share of home time fails to decrease despite increases in women's...
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Do social policies harm employment and growth?
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003
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Do Social Policies Harm Employment and Growth?
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
In economies with competitive labour markets social policies harm employment and output. In Europe, in particular, non … such as progressive taxation or facilitating corporatism may well induce wage moderation and boost employment and output … better off and thus votes for less 'populist' policies. Hence, employment and economic growth will be higher and inflation …
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A Dynamic Model of Female Labor Force Participation Rate and Human Capital Investment
Szulga, Radek S. - 2013
This paper develops a dynamic model of human capital investment and labor participation. The main focus is on the fact that women's labor force participation rate is U-shaped over the course of development. We also analyze the behavior of the relative education levels of men and women, the...
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Courtship as an Investing Game : Labor-Market and Marriage-Market Outcomes by Age by Marriage
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2018
This paper documents relationships between age at marriage and labor-market out- come reflected by personal income as well as relationships between age at marriage and marriage-market outcome reflected by spousal income for Americans born from 1900s to 1970s, and motivated by these documented...
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Distributional effects of emission pricing in a carbon-intensive economy: the case of Poland
Antosiewicz, Marek; Fuentes S. M., J. Rodrigo; … - 2020
In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two … introduce a new adjustment channel related to employment changes, which is qualitatively different from price and behavioural …
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...
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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives : standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets
Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …. -- agency ; motivation ; employment relationships ; behavioral economics …
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Social preferences and competition
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009
There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if they were purely self-interested. We qualify this view....
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