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In this paper we investigate the effects of subsidizing low-skilled, labourintensive services hired by high-skilled individuals in the presence of labour income taxation. Whether such a subsidy can be Paretoimproving depends crucially on the degree of substitutability of both types of labour in...
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goods bought at the market with individuals' time. We apply our model to new and unique data on Dutch couples with children …. Our application uses a novel estimation strategy that builds upon the familiar two-stage allocation representation of the … domestically produced goods (including children's welfare). Next, Pareto weights depend on variables like the individual wages and …
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-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …
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Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours … satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they …
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We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model.The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses leisure.Preferences and the intrahousehold bargaining process are identified by using panel data with couples and individuals who...
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happiness.We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey.Our analysis indicates that … part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is … increased if their partners work full-time.Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but is …
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This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …
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Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in …
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