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This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in...
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This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed around couples, and so it could be argued that empirically, this is the single most important...
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The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...
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paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …
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examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and … self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage premiums associated with migration for both males and females who move … for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment …
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influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … on local economies. Our findings suggest that housing and to a lesser degree food prices increased, but employment rates … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees …
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enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a … natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to an exogenous supply shock. We evaluate the impact of this migration …
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result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … employment within one year. The quarterly Labour Force Survey data (ISTAT) from 1993 to 1997 was used. The transition …
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This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a … even moderate amounts of employment. The negative cognitive effects occur partly because maternal labor supply reduces the …
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