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Making Work Pay : Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children

Kurowska, Anna - 2015

objectives of higher employment and lower poverty levels.In this paper we present a simulation exercise to examine labour supply … increasing the potential of in-work support to alleviate poverty …

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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and transfer system. The analysis considers purely Pareto improving...

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Effects of Lottery Wins on Household Labor Supply

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual fixed-effects models, we show that male annual hours of work do not respond to lottery wins, whilst...

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Time and Income Poverty : An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data

Merz, Joachim - 2009

Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a … multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important … dimension and the interdependence of the often only separately counted multiple poverty dimensions. Our paper will contribute to …

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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers : Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? The German Case

Merz, Joachim - 2016

poverty but also by considering time poverty within the framework of a new interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty … of 1991/92 and 2001/2 of the Federal Statistics Office provide the data to quantify the multidimensional poverty in all … the IMD poverty regimes. Important result: self-employed with regard to single income poverty, single time poverty and …

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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer - 2014

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...

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Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?

Gong, Xiaodong - 2012

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...

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Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review

Apps, Patricia - 2012

The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...

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Do Parents Tax Their Children? Teenage Labour Supply and Financial Support

Holford, Angus - 2016

This paper models child employment and parental pocket money decisions as a non-cooperative game. Assuming that the child human capital is a household public good and that the relationship between child human capital and employment is concave, we compare the welfare obtained under different...

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : The Case of Divorced Parents

Francesconi, Marco - 2008

This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...

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