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Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Micro-Simulation Analysis

Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

phase-out rates, the uniform redistribution policy is, in general, undesirable unless the redistributive tastes of the …

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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

evidence using the World Values Surveys that female total work is relatively greater than men’s where both men and women …

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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labour force participation of females...

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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...

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What Do CEOs Do?

Bandiera, Oriana; Guiso, Luigi; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea - sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up - is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance issues. We follow 94 CEOs of...

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs’ diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing firms across six countries (Brazil, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States). By this measure,...

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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We analyze peer e¤ects in sleeping behavior using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be inconsistent. We extend the NLS estimator in Wang and Lee...

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Real Effects of Inflation Through the Redistribution of Nominal Wealth

Doepke, Matthias; Schneider, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

redistribution brought about by a moderate inflation episode. Redistribution takes the form of 'ends-against-the-middle': the middle … calibrated OLG model is used to assess the macroeconomic implications of this redistribution under alternative fiscal policy … rules. We show that inflation-induced redistribution has a persistent negative effect on output, but improves the weighted …

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The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96

Newbery, David M G; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from the start of the transitional tax reforms of 1988, and develops methods for estimating marginal indirect taxes. It evaluates the distributional impact of revenue-neutral...

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Undesirable Redistributions in the Retirement-Public Pension Schemes: The Italian Case Study

Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

This paper uses comparative statistics in a simple three-period overlapping generations model to show that any pay-as-you-go mechanism for public retirement pensions, when adopted in a dualistic economic system, penalises the most dynamic demographic groups, i.e., the <MI>developing<D> rather than the...</d></mi>

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