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a measure of wealth changes that is exogenous to the household's saving and labour supply. Results point to significant …We look at how strongly shocks to wealth affect labour supply, using Italian data. We use asset price shocks to provide … effects of wealth on: hours of work; whether agents leave their jobs; and, labour earnings. The magnitude of these effects can …
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I study the salience of dynamic incentives provided by the welfare system, as revealed by labour supply responses to foreseeable reductions in benefit income. I show that claimants fail to anticipate a large lump-sum reduction in benefit entitlement, arising predictably from children ageing out...
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population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …
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We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is...
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the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …
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the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …
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maximization of household welfare rests on the convexity of the budget sets. However, both the actual tax systems and the tax … specification might provide a reasonable approximation to the current intra-household allocation choices under the current tax rule …
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unions can demand different hours from different households, directly taking household heterogeneity into account. In this … households work the same amount but prohibits unions from requiring any household to work more than it would like to. This …
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Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …
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This paper studies the life-cycle effects of favorable marginal tax treatment of older workers on their optimal life cycle labor supply, retirement timing, and savings. I develop a structural model in continuous time where the life-cycle of a representative agent is divided into three distinct...
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