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Olivier Bargain 《Journal of population economics》2008,21(2):339-371
We simulate a hypothetical family tax credit on a sample of French couples, using jointly a collective model of labor supply
and a tax-benefit calculator. Work behaviors represent here a general concept of “effort,” and hence, individual productivities
cannot be assimilated with wage rates. They are retrieved by inversion of the optimal household program under simple assumptions
on household preferences and bargaining rules. The calibrated model is used to predict incentive effects of the reform and
distributive impacts on individuals and households. The desirability of the reform depends on which of these two welfare units
is used for normative evaluation.
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Lehr CS 《Journal of population economics》1999,12(4):567-590
This paper shows that financial intermediation can influence fertility and labor allocation decisions by raising market wages.
The increase in wages induces some households to abandon “traditional” labor intensive methods of production managed at the
household level and supply labor to “modern” sector firms. Since it is optimal for households in the modern sector to have
fewer children, the labor allocation decision leads to lower national fertility. A panel VAR using financial intermediation,
fertility and industrial employment share data in 87 countries is estimated. The empirical results show that the data are
consistent with the theoretical predictions.
Received: 20 October 1997/Accepted: 31 August 1998 相似文献
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Labor Migration has long been viewed as a strategy adopted by the household unit to allocate family resources rationally to
increase the flows of income and to raise family standard of living. The research reported here examines the extent to which
remittances sent by Filipino overseas workers increase the income and standard of living of households in the Philippines.
Data for the analysis were obtained from a representative sample of 2,388 households drawn in 1999–2000 from four major “labor
sending” areas in the Philippines. The analysis compares households with and without overseas workers to estimate the contribution
of remittances to household income and to household standard of living (measured once by an ‘objective’ indicator and once
by a ‘subjective’ assessment). The data reveal that due to remittances the income of households with overseas labor migrants
is considerably higher than the income of households without overseas workers. The data also reveal that remittances are used
mostly for consumption purposes (e.g. purchase of food, clothing, education, and goods) and that most of the difference in
standard of living (whether measured on the ‘objective’ or the ‘subjective’ scale) between households with and without overseas
workers are attributed to remittances. The implications of labor migration and the policy that encourages and supports labor
migration for the Filipino society are evaluated and discussed.
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Anastasia GorodzeiskyEmail: |
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Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an increase in labor supply and consumption and a reduction of the marginal income tax, while the child benefit may move in either direction. Similarly, a move from joint taxation to some scheme of family tax splitting increases labor supply and welfare. 相似文献
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Helmuth Cremer Jean-Marie Lozachmeur Pierre Pestieau 《Journal of population economics》2012,25(2):763-778
We study the optimal income taxation of couples. We determine the resulting intra-family labor supply allocation and its implication
for the choice of the tax unit (individual versus joint taxation). We provide a general condition for full joint taxation
to arise. We also study how the spouses’ respective labor supply decisions are distorted when the condition does not hold.
In particular, we show that, depending on the pattern of mating, the celebrated result according to which the spouse with
the more elastic labor supply faces the lower marginal tax rates may or may not hold in our setting. 相似文献
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We examine pollution in a developing country where fertility is endogenous and wealth increases welfare through status. When
the country has defective environmental laws, it has a comparative advantage in capital-intensive “dirty” goods. Gains from
trade due to trade liberalization then increase income and boost population growth. With strong incentives to save, they also
stimulate investment, which hampers population growth. Because population growth crowds out labor supply, production of capital-intensive
dirty goods first increases and then decreases. This yields a typical environmental Kuznets path: pollution increases at the
earlier stages but decreases at the later stages of development. 相似文献
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Olivier Bargain Marco Caliendo Peter Haan Kristian Orsini 《Journal of population economics》2010,23(1):323-351
This paper empirically analyzes the labor supply effects of two “making work pay” reforms in Germany. We provide evidence
in favor of policies that distinguish between low effort and low productivity by targeting individuals with low wages rather than those with low earnings. We discuss our results more generally and with comparisons to the family-based tax credits in force in the US and the UK.
For the evaluation of the policies, we apply a static structural labor supply framework and explicitly account for demand-side
constraints by using a double-hurdle model. 相似文献
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A crucial issue in efficiency-equality evaluations of tax reforms resides in the possibility that the level as well as the distribution of welfare may change, where the household-specific measures of welfare capture the value of income as well as the value of leisure. A better-designed redistribution and income support system may not only foster equality but also improve the configuration of incentives and by this route contribute in its turn to efficiency. This paper presents an empirical analysis of the welfare effects for married couples of replacing the Italian tax system by three alternative hypothetical reforms: a flat tax, a negative income tax, and a work fare scheme. We employ a microeconometric model of household labour supply that represents partners simultaneous choices, allows for constraints in the choice of hours of work, and is sufficiently flexible to capture a large variety of supply responses. These features appear to be crucial in the evaluation of reform effects. The results suggest that there is scope for improving upon the current system under both the efficiency and the equality criterion. The benefits from the reforms, however, come from unexpected directions since the largest labour supply contribution come from poor and middle class households whereas rich households appear to be much less responsive to changes in the tax rates. The simulation results reveal that a crucial role in shaping the results is played by the relatively higher behavioural responsiveness of married women living in low and average income households.All correspondence to Ugo Colombino. We would like to thank Tom Wennemo for skilful programming assistance, Anne Skoglund for technical assistance and word processing, K.A. Breke and E. Holmøy and an anonymous referee for useful comments. Special thanks to Dino Rizzi (University of Venezia), who provided us with a program written by him for the simulation of the direct and inverse 1993 tax-transfer rules (Rizzi 1996). Part of the paper was written when Aaberge and Strøm were visiting ICER and the Department of Economics in Torino. ICER is gratefully acknowledged for providing financial support and excellent working conditions. Ugo Colombino gratefully acknowledges financial and organisational support from Statistics Norway and the Department of Economics in Oslo, and from the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research (MURST research grants 1998 and 2000). Responsible editor: Alessandro Cigno. 相似文献
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We develop an extended version of Roemer’s Equality of Opportunity (EOp) criterion that accounts for income differentials
between as well as within types, where types are defined by circumstances that are beyond people’s control (parental education,
in this study). A microeconometric model of labour supply in Italy is employed to identify income tax-transfer rules that
are optimal according to the extended EOp criterion. Overall, the results do not conform to the perhaps common expectation
that the more conventional Equality of Outcome criterion is more supportive of “interventionist” (redistributive) policies
than the EOp approach. 相似文献
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We investigate the added worker effect in a setting where female labour supply is high and the welfare state is generous. We trace couples’ labour supply and income development following the husband’s job displacement. We find no support for the added worker effect for the full sample of households. However, the added worker effect seems to be at work for subsamples characterised by households where the spouses are not working in the same industry and where the wife did not work full time pre-displacement. When using a measure of total household income, which includes public transfers, we find that the negative income impact of displacement is reduced by approximately 60 to 70 % when we also adjust for lower tax payments. Results suggest that income loss due to displacement is mitigated more by social welfare payments than by labour supply responses of the spouse. 相似文献
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In this paper, we consider two types of population policies observed in practice: birth limits and birth taxes. We find that
both achieve very similar equilibrium solutions if tax revenue finances lump-sum transfers. By reducing fertility and promoting
growth, both birth policies may achieve higher welfare than conventional education subsidies financed by income taxes. A birth
tax for education subsidies can achieve the first-best solution. The welfare gain of the first-best policy may be equivalent
to a massive 10–50% rise in income, depending on the degree of human capital externalities and the elasticity of intertemporal
substitution.
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In this study we use data from rural India to examine the impact of the birth of a boy relative to the birth of a girl (i.e.,
the “gender shock”) on the savings, consumption and income of rural Indian households. We find that the gender shock reduces
savings for medium and large farm households, although there is no evidence that the shock affects savings for the landless
and the small farm households. We also estimate the effect of the shock on income and consumption for the former group in
order to determine the source of the drop in savings. The results indicate that the fall in savings subsequent to the gender
shock arises from its effect on consumption in the year following the birth, and from its effect on income in other years.
Received: 3 September 1996 /Accepted: 15 July 1997 相似文献
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Judith Christine Streak Derek Yu Servaas Van der Berg 《Social indicators research》2009,94(2):183-201
This paper offers evidence on the sensitivity of child poverty in South Africa to changes in the adult equivalence scale (AES)
and updates the child poverty profile based on the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005/06. Setting the poverty line at the
40th percentile of households calculated with different AESs the scope and composition of child poverty are found to be relatively
insensitive to the scale used. The rankings of children of different ages, girls versus boys, racial groupings and children
living in rural versus urban areas are unaffected by choice of AES, although some provincial rankings on the poverty headcount
measure are. The proportions of children and households ‘correctly’ identified as poor for the full range of scales is extremely high.
These findings support the argument that it may be appropriate for profiling poverty in South Africa to use a poverty line
based on a per capita welfare measure. For the construction of the child poverty profile, per capita income is used as the
welfare indicator with the poverty line set at the 40th percentile of household. The profile suggests that poverty amongst
children is more extensive than amongst the population or adults even after the massive injection of transfers into households
with poor children through the child support grant. The child poverty headcount, depth and severity are all highest amongst
children age 0–4 and lowest amongst those aged 15–17, who are not yet beneficiaries of the grants. They are also highest amongst
African and Coloured children. Large variations across provinces remain. The analysis underlines the importance of prioritising
children in the fight against poverty, particularly in their earliest years. 相似文献
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经过40多年的改革开放和计划生育政策实施,我国城市居民家庭规模、家庭财富、受教育程度等影响劳动供给行为的因素均发生了巨大变化。这种变化对就业政策的制定和相关福利政策的实施都有较大影响。运用来自29个省市6675个城市家庭、8771个居民的调查数据对我国城市居民劳动供给行为进行了研究。结果表明:我国城市居民劳动供给曲线整体上呈现向右上方倾斜的特征,随着工资上涨,劳动者工作时间随之增长,但是工资弹性仅有0.52,处于缺乏弹性的区间;分类型看,女性、户主、受教育程度较低者工资弹性较大,对工资变动更加敏感;女性、户主、受教育程度较高者收入弹性更大,对收入变动更加敏感;分年龄阶段看,18—30岁的新生代劳动力工作时间受工资和非工资收入影响均不显著,31—45岁的劳动力比45岁以上劳动力工资弹性和收入弹性更高,对工资和非工资收入更加敏感。本文的研究结果对细化实施就业政策和制定相关福利政策具有一定启示作用。 相似文献
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John Ermisch 《Journal of population economics》2008,21(4):827-853
The paper presents a model of a non-resident father’s child support and contact with his child, which combines the public
good treatment of “child quality” with “trade” in father–child contact time in a setting of non-cooperative interaction. It
predicts that father’s income and mother’s non-labour income should have exactly the same effect on the frequency of father–child
contact if he chooses to make lump sum payments to the mother. If he does not or there is a binding child support payment
order, they have effects opposite in direction. A higher binding support order reduces father–child contact but may well raise
“child quality”.
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John ErmischEmail: |
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Social Stratification and Consumption Patterns in Turkey 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2
Kemal Aydin 《Social indicators research》2006,75(3):463-501
In this article, by analyzing consumption practices of Turkish households, I attempted to identify whether there are distinctions
between different social classes in Turkey. Stated another way, I assessed and explored the impact of socio-economic forces
on consumption patterns, taste and lifestyle. In doing so, I tested emprically, two theoretical approaches, Bourdieu’s “reproduction
theory” and Giddens “class Structuration thesis”. A total of eight dependent variables are analyzed in terms of the linkages
between those selected consumption items and social structure. In general, the emprical findings indicated that the intersection
and reinforcement of social class variables, such as income, education, occupation, sector, and neighborhood differentiation,
determined consumption patterns and lifestyle differences in Turkey. 相似文献
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Despina Moraitou Chrysa Kolovou Chrysa Papasozomenou Catherine Paschoula 《Social indicators research》2006,76(1):71-93
This study examined the relationship between hope as disposition, adaptation to old age, and individual-demographic factors.
One hundred and fifty older adults, aged 60–93 years old, completed the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale developed by Snyder
et al. [1991, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, pp. 570–585], and the Adaptation to Old Age Questionnaire
developed by Efklides et al. [2003, European Psychologist, 8, pp. 178–191]. Factor analyses revealed 2 factors for hope, “Pathways
Thought” and “Agency Thinking”, and 4 factors for adaptation to old age, “Health Comparison”, “General Adaptation/Self-Efficacy”,
“Self-Control”, and “Generativity”. Regression analyses showed that hope as pathways thought predicted all factors of adaptation,
whereas hope as agency thinking predicted only “General Adaptation/Self-Efficacy” and “Self-Control”. There were also some
effects of gender, education, marital status, place of residence, and health status on specific aspects of adaptation to old
age. 相似文献
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Contrary to Bourdieu’s theory (Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press (1984)) that cultural consumption of so-called “high” versus popular culture is determined by socio-economic
class, Peterson (Poetics 21:243–258, 1992; Poetics 33:257–282, 2005) finds that higher income and education groups are more
likely to be “cultural omnivores”—consumers of a wide variety of both high and popular cultural goods. Omnivores were also
found to be much less likely to exclude other cultures and to be more open to, and tolerant of, the views of others than those
with narrower cultural tastes, called “cultural univores”. This article investigates the omnivore/univore hypothesis in a
South African context, using survey data collected from 500 attendees of live theatre performances at the National Arts Festival
in 2008. Multiple correspondence analysis (also called perceptual mapping) shows an interesting intermediate state between
Boudieu-like high culture univores and Peterson omnivores, which could have interesting implications for the development of
social tolerance in multi-cultural South Africa. 相似文献