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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Labor Supply"”.
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Labor supply, taxation and unemployment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Labor supply and accounting firm mergers
… paper, I study how regulation-induced accounting labor supply shocks affect the audit market. Using a novel dataset that includes both large and small accounting firms, I identify labor supply shocks using the 150-Hour Rule and the Mobility Provision and investigate the resulting incidence of …
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Essays on Worker Productivity and Labor Supply
… country workers’ productivity, well-being and labor supply. The first essay explores how workers labor supply is affected by transitory income shocks. In neoclassical models, transitory income shocks should not affect labor supply. This prediction has often been rejected empirically in favor of …
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Three Essays on Labor Supply in China
… studying the determination and evolution of labor supply in China. The analysis especially focuses on the labor market behavior of the wage workers with urban registration (Hukou). The first chapter outlines the dissertation by briefly discussing the motivations, methods, and main findings in …
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Essays on Taxation, Marriage, and Labor Supply
My dissertation consists of three essays on labor supply responses, along the extensive margin (participation into the labor force) and along the intensive margin (intensity of work on the job). The first two essays focus on the labor supply responsiveness of single women with children to taxation …
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Volunteer Labor Supply and Liability of Volunteers
This paper examines factors affecting volunteer labor supply with two specific goals: (1) a reassessment of the model and empirical process outlined by Paul Menchik and Burton Weisbrod using a larger data set from a more recent time period; and (2) an exploration of how volunteer labor supply is …
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Measuring the labor supply effect of income taxation using a life-cycle labor supply model: A case of Indonesia
… this study is to estimate a life cycle model of labor supply including taxes for a developing economy by applying two methods of estimation. The first method is the cohort approach and the second approach is the consumption approach. The idea of the cohort approach is to create a simulated …
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The incentive effects of Medicaid on women's labor supply
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Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania
… households engage in intermittent wage labor as a way to smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic shocks to agricultural income. Using data on agricultural households from the Tanzanian LSMS-ISA National Panel Survey and global commodity price data as a source of plausibly …
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Essay on Tax Enforcement, Optimal Monetary Policy and Labor Supply
… played by tax enforcement policies in explaining labor supply behavior. Tax distortions can be offset by informal activities because households can substitute from market work into informal or non-taxed work. The formal sector TFP plays an important role in explaining agents' time allocation. …
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The New Entrants Component of Scientific and Technical Labor Supply
The supply of scientific and technical (S & T) labor can be viewed as consisting of five major components, including the stock at a point in time and four major flows. The flows are migration, attrition, occupational mobility, and new entrants. This study examines the determinants of the quantity …
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Indonesian income taxation and labor supply: A cross-section analysis
The study finds that there is no significant difference between the results of these two procedures. The magnitudes of the compensated work-wage elasticities for the OLS estimation range from.33 to.58, whereas those for OP range from.22 to.51. The compensated elasticities for females are generally …
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Estimating the potential available labor supply for mid-sized Iowa communities
1 PDF file (vii, 124 pages)
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The Impact Of Economic Policies On Household Financial And Labor Supply Behavior
… significantly influence household financial and labor supply decisions. In return, household responses to the policy change inform policy design. In this dissertation, I document how individuals respond to economic policies by adjusting their critical economic decisions: how much to save and how …
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Essays on Labor Supply in the Multisectoral Markets of Brazil and Mexico
… sector employment. The last paper examines the labor force entry and sectoral choice of married women when there is an expected or realized negative income shock. Discrete choice models are estimated, taking into consideration the state of the economy and changes in household employment and …
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The Distributional and Labor Supply Effects of Alternative Individual Income Tax Proposals
The objectives of recent tax legislation were to broaden the tax base and decrease the tax rates. Disagreement still exists, however, over the effects of these revisions on the distribution of the income tax burden and on whether the lowering of tax rates will have the intended economic effects. …
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Education and labor supply: An extended demographic model of the Chicago region
… all levels of education. The model resembles the supply side of a manpower requirements model when education and other variables are used to project the supply of occupationally qualified labor within a regional labor market. This notion of supply is compared with independent projections of …
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