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Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities Based on Cross-Country Micro Data : A Bridge Between Micro and Macro Estimates?
Jäntti, Markus - 2014
We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...
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An Up-to-Date Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Model
Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2017
respond more strongly to changes in wages. The average wage elasticity for mothers is in the range 0.25–0.30 …
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Wages Anatomy. Labor Supply of Nurses and a Comparison with Physicians
Andreassen, Leif - 2014
retirement age. Wage increases have a modest impact on labor supply. The overall elasticity for nurses is close to zero (like for …
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Wages and Recruitment : Evidence from External Wage Changes
Falch, Torberg - 2013
results indicate that the short-run labor supply elasticity towards the individual establishment is about 1.4 …
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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2021
that the bargaining power of women in more traditional households is relatively low, but our estimation results do not …
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Labor Supply and the Demand for Child Care : An Intertemporal Approach
Upmann, Thorsten; Minagawa, Junichi - 2021
In this paper, we present a model of a one parent-one child household where parental decisions on labor supply, leisure, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We characterize the path of the optimal decisions and...
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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply
Fenge, Robert - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia - 2014
This paper presents 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 between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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Reducing the Excess Burden of Subsidizing the Stork : Joint Taxation, Individual Taxation, and Family Tax Splitting
Meier, Volker - 2008
Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768348
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Rank Dependent Utility, Tax Evasion and Labor Supply
Eide, Erling - 2010
payers act according to some non-expected utility theory, and (2) Individual ethical norms and social stigma induce people … subjective probabilities of being penalised according to the rank dependent utility theory, and (2) Tax payers' beliefs about … utility theory. The model explains data 53% better than pure random choices and predicts hours worked in the regular economy …
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