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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025633
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2016
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986539
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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits : lessons from recent UK reforms
Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2002
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575128
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Labour supply and taxation
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Phillips, David (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727667
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Unintended consequences of welfare reform : the case of divorced parents
Francesconi, Marco (contributor); Rainer, Helmut (contributor) - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793332
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Capital income taxation and the mirrlees review
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2012
The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548071
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Channels of labour supply responses of lone parents to changed work incentives
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the welfare system in Australia. We look at changes to both hours and participation and focus on the channels of adjustment, in particular the role of job changes for adjustment in hours. We highlight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793035
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Dealing with negative marginal utilities in the discrete choice modelling of labour supply
Liégeois, Philippe; Islam, Nizamul - 2010
In discrete choice labour supply analysis, it is often reasonably expected that utility is increasing with income. Yet, analyses based on discrete choice models sometimes mention that, when no restriction is imposed a priori in the statistical optimization program, the monotonicity condition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757669
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard W. - 2013
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082137
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Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives
Gong, Xiaogong - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the welfare system in Australia. We look at changes to both hours and participation and focus on the channels of adjustment, in particular the role of job changes for adjustment in hours. We highlight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074286