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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment

Bettendorf, Leon J.H; Broer, Peter - 2003

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behavior of finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax rates distort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that of...

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Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity

Keane, Michael P.; Neal, Timothy - 2022

There is a long standing controversy over the magnitude of the Frisch labor supply elasticity. Macro economists using DSGE models often calibrate it to be large, while many micro data studies ﬁnd it is small. Several papers attempt to reconcile the micro and macro results. We o ﬀ er a new...

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Habit Formation, Work Ethics, and Technological Progress

Faria, Joao Ricardo; Leon-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2003

Work ethics affects labor supply. This idea is modeled assuming that work is habit forming. This paper introduces working habits in a neoclassical growth model and compares its outcomes with a model without habit formation. In addition, it analyzes the impact of different forms of technical...

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Pension Incentives and Labor Supply : Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK

Giesecke, Matthias; Jaeger, Philipp - 2022

We study the labor supply implications of the Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided pensions to older people in the UK. Using recently released census data covering the entire population, we exploit variation at the newly created age-based eligibility threshold....

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Immigration, female labour supply and local cultural norms

Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Weinhardt, Felix - 2022

We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the...

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The effect of pension wealth on employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

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Comparison between Unitary and Collective Models of Household Labor Supply with Taxation

Beninger, Denis; Laisney, Francois - 2008

with income taxation. We distinguish the cases of individual and joint taxation. Estimating the unitary model we obtain … strikingly different 'preference' parameters depending on the type of taxation. We also obtain substantial differences between … should be devoted to the estimation of collective models with taxation …

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Early child care, maternal labor supply, and gender equality : a randomized controlled trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024

We provide experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care increases maternal labor supply and promotes gender equality among families with lower socioeconomic status (SES). Our intervention offers information and customized help with child care applications, leading to...

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Parental labor supply : evidence from minimum wage changes

Godøy, Anna; Reich, Michael; Wursten, Jesse; … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 59 (2024) 2, pp. 416-442

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Progression of nurses within the NHS

Stoye, George; Warner, Max - 2024

In this report, we examine the career progression of nurses and other staff groups within the NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) pay framework in England over the decade between 2012 and 2021. We document differences in progression across pay bands between staff groups and within groups of nurses to...

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