scholarly journals Labour Market Responses of Survival Pensioners: Estimating a Labour Supply Model and Predicting the Effect of the Reform

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Decoster ◽  
Kristian Orsini ◽  
Guy Van Camp
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Market Responses ◽  
Supply Model

Remittances and Labour Supply Revisited: New Evidence from the Macedonian Behavioural Tax and Benefit Microsimulation Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-234
Author(s):  
Marjan Petreski
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Microsimulation Model ◽  
Market Activity ◽  
Market Responses ◽  
Methodological Concern ◽  
Labour Market Activity ◽  
New Evidence

The objective of the paper is to revisit the role of remittances for labour-supply responses. Previous studies documented conflicting results, while the key methodological concern – remittances’ endogeneity about labour supply – has not been resolved convincingly. We construct behavioural tax and benefit microsimulation model and simulate labour-market responses of singles and couples had remittances not existed in their households. This is a novel methodological approach avoiding the usual trap of utilisation of inappropriate instruments to remittances. Our results suggest that remittances are prevalently associated with lower labour-market activity, especially for women. However, the labour-supply response is found quite feeble and only in single families. Hence, while previous findings are not entirely rebutted, they may have been overstated and are highly dependent on the construct of the receiving household.

scholarly journals Labour Supply and Inequality Effects of In-Work Benefits: Evidence from Serbia

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saša Ranđelović ◽  
Jelena Žarković Rakić ◽  
Marko Vladisavljević ◽  
Sunčica Vujić
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Supply Model ◽  
Redistributive Effects ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Equal Income

AbstractLow labour market participation, together with the high effective tax wedge at low wage levels, create a fertile ground for the introduction of the in-work benefits (IWB) in Serbia. Our paper provides an ex-ante evaluation of the two IWB schemes, directed at stimulating the labour supply and more equal income distribution. The methodological approach combines the tax-and-benefit microsimulation model with the discrete labour supply model. Our results show that both individual and family-based IWB schemes would considerably boost labour market participation, although family-based benefits would have disincentivizing effects for the secondary earners in couples. Most of the behavioural changes take place among the poorest individuals, with significant redistributive effects.

scholarly journals The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Adult Labour Supply: A Unitary Discrete Choice Model for the Case of Ecuador

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Mideros ◽  
Cathal O’Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Discrete Choice Model ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Social Transfers ◽  
Supply Model ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Unconditional Cash Transfers

AbstractWe examine the effect of unconditional cash transfers by a unitary discrete labour supply model. We argue that there is no negative income effect of social transfers in the case of poor adults because leisure could not be assumed to be a normal good under such conditions. Using data from the national employment survey of Ecuador (ENEMDUR) we estimate the effect of the

A Choice-Theoretical Labour-Market Model: Empirical Tests at the Mesolevel

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1085-1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Baumann ◽  
M M Fischer ◽  
U Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Regional Labour Markets ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Supply Model

This paper contains an analysis of a multiregional labour-supply model for Austria. In the approach suggested here attempts are made to combine the advantages of random-utility-based discrete choice theory and partial reduced-form estimation. Two recursive submodels, the labour-force participation submodel, and the commuting and employment submodel, are developed. Three different types of model specifications at the mesolevel are used to analyse the consequences of choosing a spatial framework of overlapping regional labour markets upon the model parameters, to investigate the usefulness of the model approach in relation to different regionalisation variants, and to carry out a sensitivity analysis with respect to the effects of the model parameters used to delineate the labour-market regions.

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