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作者：Graversen, Brian Krogh; van Ours, Jan C.
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Melbourne
摘要：This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were randomly assigned to the program while the other half was not. It appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks, while it is 11.5 ...
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作者：Shen, Yan; Yao, Yang
作者单位：Peking University
摘要：Using village and household survey data collected from 48 villages of eight Chinese provinces for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies how the introduction of village elections affects income distribution at the village level. We estimate both a static fixed-effect panel model and a dynamic panel model for the within-village Gini coefficient and take care of the endogeneity of the introduction of elections. The dynamic panel model shows that having elections reduces the Gini coefficient by...
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作者：Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite Cote d'Azur; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
摘要：This paper investigates the employment impact of a new tax-credit programme that was put in place in France in 2001. According to the theoretical labour supply model, tax credits will have a positive effect on individual labour market participation as they increase the rewards from work. However, tax credits may discourage married women's participation mainly due to income effects. We analyse the introduction of the French measure by adopting a non-experimental evaluation method. Various treat...
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作者：Karistrom, Anders; Palme, Marten; Svensson, Ingemar
作者单位：Stockholm University; Royal Institute of Technology
摘要：We study the effect of a reform of the Swedish disability insurance (DI) program whereby the special eligibility rules for workers in the age group 60 to 64 were abolished. First, we use a differences-in-differences approach to study changes in the disability take-up as compared to the age group 55 to 59. Then, we use a similar approach to study to what extent the employment effect of the reform is crowded out by an increase in the utilization of the sickpay insurance (SI) and/or the unemploym...
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作者：Shelton, Cameron A.
作者单位：Wesleyan University
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作者：Sivadasan, Jagadeesh; Slemrod, Joel
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We examine the effects of a 1992 income tax law change in India that eliminated the tax penalty on wages paid to partners in partnership firms using a large dataset covering all registered plants in the manufacturing sector over the period 1986 to 1995. This tax law change provides a unique opportunity to identify the effects of tax policy changes on firm behavior in a developing country context. We find an immediate and pervasive response by partnership firms to the tax law change, reflected ...
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作者：Wilhelm, Mark Ottoni; Brown, Eleanor; Rooney, Patrick M.; Steinberg, Richard
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Claremont Colleges; Pomona College
摘要：This paper estimates the correlation between the generosity of parents and the generosity of their adult children using regression models of adult children's charitable giving. New charitable giving data are collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and used to estimate the regression models. The regression models are estimated using a wide variety of techniques and specification tests, and the strength of the intergenerational giving correlations is compared with intergenerational corre...
