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Nurses' labour supply elasticities : the importance of accounting for extensive margins

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2012

weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different … wage elasticities might be higher than previous research has found. This is mainly due to the effect of wages on the … respect to income are higher for nurses with children, while the positive elasticities with respect to wages are higher for …

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Labor supply and consumption smoothing when income shocks are non-insurable

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011

The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique...

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Health shocks, human capital, and labor market outcomes

Parro, Francisco; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018

Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked though complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile....

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

imply an elasticity of substitution between young and old workers of about 8, between medium- and low-skilled workers of 4 …

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

imply an elasticity of substitution between young and old workers of about 8, between medium- and low-skilled workers of 4 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709378

Parental leave and mothers' careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits

Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011

Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...

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Heterogeneous displacement effects of migrant labor supply : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Scharfbillig, Mario; Weißler, Marco - 2019

We provide estimates of the effect of migrant labor supply on resident employment. We exploit variation in the number of asylum seekers eligible to the suspension of a major hiring restriction implemented in a subset of German counties. Our difference-in-difference design allows us to provide...

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Rising U.S. Earnings Inequality and Family Labor Supply : The Covariance Structure of Intrafamily Earnings

Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2010

This paper studies the labor supply contributions to individual and family earnings inequality during the period of rising wage inequality in the early 1980's. Working couples have positively correlated labor market outcomes, which are almost entirely attributable to permanent factors. An...

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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes

Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021

preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and … activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … significantly larger if the wage shock is asymmetric across partners, not symmetric. Aggregating preferences and wages by gender and …

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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

effects across income levels. For low-income workers, taxes have negative and dynamic effects on wages. Their elasticity of … static, with an elasticity of approximately 0.2. Second, wages respond to taxes through human capital accumulation and job …This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of income taxes on gross hourly wages by utilizing …

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