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Gathering support for green tax reform : evidence from German household surveys
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668336
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319318
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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582273
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Validating structural labor supply models : conference paper
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013 - Work in progress, This version: February 27, 2013
Although discrete hours choice models have become the workhorse in labor supply analyses. Yet, they are often criticized for being a black box due to their numerous underlying modeling assumptions, with respect to, e.g., the functional form, unobserved error components or several exogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340999
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824264
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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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Labor complementarities and health in the agricultural household
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - 2011
substitutability of family labor inputs. We show how data on time allocations, health shocks and corresponding treatment choices can be …-specific complementarities. -- Intra-household allocation ; health shocks ; complementarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130722
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Mandated Sick Pay : Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
Maclean, Catherine - 2020
This paper evaluates the labor market effects of sick pay mandates in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837310
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Pichler, Stefan - 2017
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970324
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Pichler, Stefan - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012140