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Cai, Zhengyu - 2025

This paper investigates how human capital concentration in cities is associated with working hours across different worker groups, an important but understudied dimension of urban agglomeration effects. Using microdata from the American Community Survey covering 240 metropolitan statistical...

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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

taken into account. We extend the neoclassical labor supply model in two directions. First, we allow for endogenous wages … differentials of part-time jobs, the model with endogenous wages predicts lower part-time employment than the standard neoclassical …

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Income taxes, gross hourly wages, and the anatomy of behavioral responses : evidence from a Danish tax reform

Sumiya, Kazuhiko; Bagger, Jesper - 2022

This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of income taxes on gross hourly wages by utilizing … effects across income levels. For low-income workers, taxes have negative and dynamic effects on wages. Their elasticity of … wages (with respect to net-of-marginal-tax rates) is close to one. For higher-income workers, the effects are small and …

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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

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What if she earns more? : gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework

Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...

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American exceptionalism in market income inequality : an analysis based on microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database

Gornick, Janet C.; Milanović, Branko; Johnson, Nathaniel - 2017 - First draft, February 14, 2017

The US has exceptionally high inequality of disposable household income (i.e., income after accounting for taxes and transfers). Among working-age households (those with no persons over age 60), that high level of inequality is caused by a high level of market income inequality (i.e., income...

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The rise and fall of income inequality in Mexico : 1989 - 2010

Campos, Raymundo; Esquivel, Gerardo; Lustig, Nora - 2012

forces (demand and supply of labour by skill), institutional factors (minimum wages and unionization rate), and public policy … changes in hourly wages into characteristics and returns. The main driver is changes in returns. Returns rose (1989-94) due to …. -- inequality ; wages ; disposable income ; labour markets ; Mexico …

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The effect of public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages

Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2020

The public work (PW) programmes have been the major active labour market policy tools since 2011 in Hungary. Majority of the public workers were inactive before the programme. Due to this the labour supply considerably increased in those district, which got significantly more subsidy from the...

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Income-driven labor-market polarization

Comin, Diego; Danieli, Ana; Mestieri, Martí - 2020

We propose a mechanism for labor-market polarization based on the nonhomotheticity of demand that we call the income-driven channel. Our mechanism builds on a novel empirical fact: expenditure elasticities and production intensities in low- and high-skill occupations are positively correlated...

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Negative and positive assimilation by prices and by quantities

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...

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