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The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Labour Supply and Education in an Economy with Household and Market Production

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper considers optimal educational investment and labour supply with increasing returns to scale in the earnings function In so doing we develop the work of Rosen (1983), who first highlighted the increasing returns argument that arises because private returns to human capital investment...

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Daycare Subsidies and Labor Supply in Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv; Stafford, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

household survey for 1984 in combination with data on public day care fees and spaces per child by community. We argue that the … the household. The joint out-of-home child care and labor supply decision is analyzed by logit-choice models. We find that …

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Labour Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper studies the effects of labour income taxation on growth in an OLG model where both formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements. We compare them with the effects obtained in a model where only formal schooling matters for skill formation....

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The Cash Opportunity of Childbearing: An Approach Using British Data

Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work …

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New Men and New Women? A Comparison of Paid Work Propensities from a Panel Data Perspective

Booth, Alison L; Jenkins, Stephen P; Serrano, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using panel data probit regression models, the paper also...

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Human Resources & the Labour Force: Issues for Contemporary & Comparative Research

Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984

affecting the quantity and quality of employment on the demand side of the economy; and c) factors affecting processes of … 'unemployment' and 'poverty' traps, geographical mobility of residence and employment pay discrimination, the 'discouraged worker …

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Household Production and International Business Cycles

Canova, Fabio; Ubide, Angel J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper investigates the effects of introducing household production in an international real business cycle model …. We show how a model driven by disturbances to the household production can account for some features of international … cycles. A version of the model which considers shocks to both market and household technologies seems able to reproduce the …

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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

considered: technological progress in the household sector and shifts in the wage structure. The analysis emphasizes the joint …

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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

here that technological progress in the household sector has saved on the need for labour at home. This makes it more … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day—the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no...

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