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The effects of a universal child benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280652
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323402
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The effects of a universal child benefit
Luna, Libertad González - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323412
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Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status
Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270121
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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813
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Chapter 69 Labor Supply Models: Unobserved Heterogeneity, Nonparticipation and Dynamics
Blundell, Richard; MaCurdy, Thomas; Meghir, Costas - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4667-4775). 2007
This chapter is concerned with the identification and estimation of models of labor supply. The focus is on the key issues that arise from unobserved heterogeneity, nonparticipation and dynamics. We examine the simple “static” labor supply model with proportional taxes and highlight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024946
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The career costs of children
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2011
-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282438
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The Career Costs of Children
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395432
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Is Prescott right?: welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire
Jacobs, Bas - 2008
This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264345
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274258