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Time and income poverty: an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 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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Can parents afford to work? Childcare costs, tax-benefit policies and work incentives

Immervoll, Herwig; Barber, David - 2006

Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. This paper quantifies the net cost of purchasing full-time centre-based childcare in OECD countries taking into account a wide range of influences on household budgets, including fees charged...

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Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - 2003

We hypothesize that an individual?s time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...

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Capital income taxation and the mirrlees review

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 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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The Supply of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2004

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

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A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Perali, Federico - 2015

Empirical models of labour supply adopting the collective approach have commonly used the decentralized representation and a reduced form specification of the sharing rule. This procedure has two crucial drawbacks that in principle make it inappropriate for the very same type of applications...

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Collective Labour Supply, Taxes, and Intrahousehold Allocation: An Empirical Approach

Bloemen, Hans - 2015

Most empirical studies of 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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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2012

This paper presents for the first time 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 of second earner wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in...

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A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Perali, Federico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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The Taxation of Couples

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed around couples, and so it could be argued that empirically, this is the single most important...

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