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A panel data study of physicians' labor supply : the case of Norway

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bratberg, Espen; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2003

provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with …Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it … other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 physicians observed over the …

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Bounded rationality and socially optimal limits on choice in a self-selection model

Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003

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Social security incentives and human capital investment

Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001

1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …

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Optimum delayed retirement credit

Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003

A central question for pension design is how benefits should vary with the age of retirement beyond early eligibility … age. It is often argued that in order to be neutral with respect to individual retirement decisions benefits should be … actuarially fair, that is, the present value of additional contributions and benefits ('Delayed Retirement Credit' - DRC) due to …

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The marginal cost of public funds in OECD countries : hours of work versus labor force participation

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2003

A central finding of the modern labor market literature is that labor supply responses tend to be concentrated along the extensive margin (labor force participation) rather than the intensive margin (hours of work). Yet, the literature on the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) focuses solely on...

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Pensions and fertility incentives

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2003

This paper discusses the efficiency of a pay-as-you-go pension reform by introducing a child benefit in an endogenous fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions...

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On virtual economies

Castronova, Edward - 2002

suggests that the desire to live in a game world is deep-rooted and driven by game technology. The model reveals a certain …

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The dynamic cost of the draft

Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2002

We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model with human capital accumulation to evaluate the economic consequences of compulsory services (such as military draft or social services). Our analysis identifies a so far ignored dynamic cost arising from distortions in time allocation over the...

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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : A panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002

Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a viable policy for extracting more labour supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched panel data set of Norwegian nurses covering the period 1993-1998 to estimate...

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