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We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
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results are very sensitive to the treatment of hourly wages in the estimation. For example, different (sensible) choices … concerning the modeling of the underlying wage distribution and especially the imputation of (missing) wages lead to point …
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In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty among low-wage households while increasing financial incentives to work. The present study explores the consequences of extending these transfers in Ireland, where support for...
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To promote the labor participation of parents with young children, governments employ a number of fiscal instruments. Prominent examples are childcare subsidies and in-work benefits. However, which policy works best for employment is largely unknown. We study the effectiveness of different...
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, existing tax-benefit systems and distribution of incomes and wages. These sources of heterogeneity are exploited together with …
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traditional industries. In this study, we provide a comprehensive analysis on the wage elasticity of labor supply in real … restrictions as an instrumental variable, we find a negative labor supply elasticity for ridesharing drivers, suggesting that … behavioral income-targeting model based on the theory of reference-dependent preferences: Drivers have heuristic daily targets …
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