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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility

Adermon, Adrian - 2019

We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and...

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Women’s Labor Market Responses to Their Partners’ Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment

Keldenich, Carina - 2019

This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their...

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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men’s relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...

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Do Digital Skill Certificates Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labour Platform

Kässi, Otto - 2019

We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...

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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching

Orefice, Gianluca - 2020

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...

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The Value of Formal Host-Country Education for the Labour Market Position of Refugees : Evidence from Austria

Ludolph, Lars - 2021

using the example of forcefully displaced Bosnians who arrived in Austria during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Deploying 22 … attained in Austria vis-Ã -vis Bosnia on labour market outcomes for refugees aged around schooling thresholds. These estimates … holders are visible after more than two decades of stay in Austria. The discount on Bosnian education declines over time for …

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Clash of career and family: fertility decisions after job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea Maria; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women unaffected by job loss after establishing the...

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Household models: an historical perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...

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The Taxation of Couples

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023

This paper studies the tax treatment of couples. We develop two different approaches. One is tailored to the analysis of tax systems that stick to the principle that the tax base for couples is the sum of their incomes. One is tailored to the analysis of reforms toward individual taxation. We...

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Taxes and Gender Equality : The Incidence of the ‘Tampon Tax’

Buettner, Thiess; Hechtner, Frank; Madzharova, Boryana - 2023

Many countries are currently debating whether to reduce or eliminate taxes on feminine hygiene products as a measure to address “period poverty” and promote gender equality. Legislators often reject proposals involving reforms of “tampon taxes” as the pass-through of sales taxes into...

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