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Comparing in-work benefits and financial work incentives for low-income families in the US and the UK
Brewer, Mike - 2000
The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537933
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Jobs for the poor : can labor demand policies help?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001551171
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Social interactions in the labor market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011
associated derived demands for labor. Individual and community factors may influence the average length of poverty spells. We … poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate to one … standard deviation below the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379499
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Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children
Crouter, Ann C. (ed.); Booth, Alan (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001795354
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Household labor supply and home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents
Bredemeier, Christian (contributor);  … - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794136
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Household labor supply and Home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents
Bredemeier, Christian (contributor);  … - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811812
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On the importance of household production in collective models : evidence from U.S. data
Donni, Olivier; Matteazzi, Eleonora - 2010
The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, thereby generalizing the initial results of Apps and Rees (1997) and Chiappori (1997). The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965636
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Household Labor Supply, Child Development and Childcare Policies in the United States
Verriest, Ewout - 2019
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between parental labor supply, children's cognitive development and intra-household bargaining power. To do so, I construct a model that incorporates preference heterogeneity across and within households, a constrained cooperative bargaining framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893410
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Time Allocation between Work and Family Over the Life-Cycle : A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart; Mencarini, Letizia; … - 2021
This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using most recent data available from the Time Use National...
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Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-being
Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Delgado, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372469