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The effects of child care provision in Mexico
Calderón, Gabriela - 2014
In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...
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Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2021
This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320191
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Household labor supply effects of low-wage subsidies in Germany
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415060
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Evidence of added worker effect from the 2008 economic crisis
Ayhan, Sinem H. - 2015
This paper contributes to the research on interdependencies in spousal labor supply by analyzing labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses ("added worker effect"). It empirically tests the hypothesis of added worker effect relying on a case study on Turkey during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501867
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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation : announcement and implementation effects
Blundell, Richard W.; Francesconi, Marco; Klaauw, … - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516923
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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119013
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Is the collective model of labor supply useful for tax policy analysis? : a simulation exercise
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - 2003
The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509519
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Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise
Moreau, Nicolas; Bargain, Olivier - 2021
The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within-household distributional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319997
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Worktime regulations and spousal labour supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labour supply by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238638
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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2013
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198500