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Family structure and female labour supply in Mexico City
Gong, Xiaodong (contributor); Soest, Arthur van (contributor) - 2000
This paper investigates labour supply of married women in Mexico City. A static neoclassical structural mode is used. We assume that each woman chooses her labour supply and corresponding income so that her utility is maximized, conditional upon her husband's labour supply and earnings. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520498
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Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur - 2021
This paper investigates labour supply of married women in Mexico City. A static neoclassical structural mode is used. We assume that each woman chooses her labour supply and corresponding income so that her utility is maximized, conditional upon her husband's labour supply and earnings. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321221
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The impact of easy and early access to old-age benefits on exits from the labour market : a macro-micro analysis
Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa; Góra, Marek - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-18
market than unemployment or social welfare beneficiaries. Our findings support higher retirement age-the age when workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661405
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Impacts of the availability of old-age benefits on exits from the labour market
Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa; Góra, Marek - 2015
unemployment rate, their participation and employment rates are very low: 34% and 32%, respectively. We analyse whether this is due … of old-age benefits increases the probability of outflow from unemployment to inactivity, as do unemployment rate changes … more likely to leave the workforce compared to those who receive either unemployment benefits or social welfare benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513273
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Search behavior, aggregate rationality and the discouraged worker effect
Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - 2019
- on average - higher for immigrants. We also propose an alternative measure of unemployment which includes the discourage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005437
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Tax Reform, Targeting and the Tax Burden on Women
Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
In the early 1980’s Australia had a highly progressive, individual based income tax and families received support for dependent children in the form of universal family allowances. The introduction of income tests for child support payments based on family income (now in the form of Family Tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004966282
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Taxation, Labour Supply and Saving
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
In recent years, the US, UK and Australia have lowered tax rates on high incomes and expanded tax credits and family transfer payments that are withdrawn on the joint income of a couple. These reforms result in significant changes in the structure of marginal and average income tax rates. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977254
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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441692
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Male and Female labour Supply in Damark.
Graversen, E.K. - School of Economics and Management, Institut for Økonomi - 1996
allows involuntary unemployment due to for example demand restrictions, and fixed costs of work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005646979
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic recession on less educated women's human capital : some projections
Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311038