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Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...
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This paper provides new estimates of the impact of the French tax credit on the employment outcomes of women. We model simultaneously the employment probability and the determinants of programme eligibility. We improve on earlier studies in this field that, using a single evaluation equation...
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France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households. The proportion of wives outearning their husbands was 18% for dual …
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The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …
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place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor. …
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It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low …
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In this paper we develop a model to consistently estimate the intertemporal labor supply behavior on the extensive margin (participation decision) and the intensive margin (working hours decision). In this framework we distinguish between voluntary non-participation and involuntary unemployment...
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administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …
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West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non …
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assumptions which are consistent with economic theory, e.g. log-normally distributed consumption preferences, the Bayesian method …
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