Sökning: "Household labor supply"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Household labor supply.

1. 1. Essays on Labor Supply and Adjustment Frictions

   Författare :Jósef Sigurdsson; Torsten Persson; Arash Nekoei; Peter Fredriksson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intertemporal labor supply; Frisch elasticity; Labor supply; Adjustment frictions; Geographic mobility; Moving costs; Comparative advantage; Wage rigidity; Monetary policy; Consumption; Household debt; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in IcelandHow does labor supply respond to a temporary wage change? To answer this question, I study an unexpected and salient tax reform in Iceland in 1987 that resulted in a year free of labor income taxes, but creating only minimal income effects, offering an ideal natural experiment. I first construct a new employer-employee dataset from digitized administrative records for the population. LÄS MER

3. 2. Essays on Household Behavior and Time-Use

   Författare :Daniel Hallberg; Daniel S. Hamermesh; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Time-use; Household behavior; Slutsky matrix; Income-pooling; Household labor supply; Child care; Family economics; Simultaneous equation system; Process benefits; Synchronous leisure; Working hours; Togetherness; Statistical matching; Aggregation bias; House price; Volume of trade; Search; Nationalekonomi; Tidsanvändning; Hushållsbeteende; Slutsky matris; Inkomstsammanslagning; Hushållets arbetsutbud; Barnomsorg; Familjeekonomi; Simultana ekvationssystem; Aktivitetsnytta; Samtidig fritid; Arbetstider; Samhörighet; Statistisk matching; Aggregeringsbias; Huspriser; Omsättningsvolym; Sökning.; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

   Sammanfattning : Essay 1 studies the household's decision to supply labor and tests if the so-called unitary model holds. What is subject to a test is the resulting symmetry of the Slutsky matrix, i.e., that the compensated cross-wage effects are equal. LÄS MER

4. 3. Studies on Household Labor Supply and Home Production

   Författare :Elina Pylkkänen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Hourly wage rate; Random effects; Labor supply; Discrete choice; Policy simulation; Single mothers; Welfare participation; Fixed costs of working; Home production; Household productivity; Time use; Parental leave; Childcare; Family policies; Career interruptions;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained empirical studies on different topics in labor economics based on the Swedish data. Short summaries on each paper are given below: Paper [1]: The aim is to construct models for predicting hourly wage rates and household labor supply for a dynamic microsimulation model, Sesim. LÄS MER

5. 4. Essays on health, labor market behavior, and economic incentives

   Författare :Alejandro Vega; Thomas Aronsson; Gauthier Lanot; David Granlund; Niklas Jakobsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor force participation; labor supply; health status; financial risk-taking; gender differences; job loss; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Paper [1] analyzes how the labor force participation changes in response to major health shocks, such as new cancer diagnoses, heart attacks, and strokes, in middle-aged to elderly Mexican couples, and how the spouses interact in their responses. The data originates from the Mexican Health and Aging Study and provides information on how couples coordinate their labor market activities in response to major health shocks. LÄS MER

7. 5. From Welfare to Work : Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs

   Författare :Lillit Ottosson; Eva Mörk; Anna Sjögren; Ulrika Vikman; Alexander Willén; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social assistance; Welfare; Labor supply; Public sector employment programs; Cost-shifting; Dynamic inverse probability weighting; Refugees; Integration; Active labor market policies; Language support; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay I: I study the effects of increased social assistance (SA) generosity by exploiting exogenous variation induced by a ruling in the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court in 1993, mandating local governments to provide a minimum level of untied SA payments. The new rule forced some local governments to increase their SA generosity, while others were unaffected as they already complied with the stricter standards. LÄS MER