Low-income earners and others facing housing market barriers have long sought to save costs by sharing. Potentially a release valve in constrained markets, the share sector is poorly understood due difficulty of tracing informal negotiations between cohabiting households. However, rise online accommodation platforms opens new opportunities view these hidden arrangements while also propelling pr...

This paper estimates intertemporal labor supply responses to two-year long income tax holidays staggered across Swiss cantons. Cantons shifted from an system based on the previous two years’ a standard annual pay as you earn system, leaving years of untaxed. We find significant but quantitatively very small wage earnings with elasticity 0.025 overall. High earners and especially self-employed d...

Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. Increased firm-level uncertainty reduces total compensation, especially variable pay, and workers reduce durable goods consumption in response. Such shocks...

More than 90% of wage earners in the United States can receive pension options benefits after retirement. It is especially important to manage funds reasonably and choose right investment We use capital asset pricing model (CAPM) Fama-French three-factor establish non-pension portfolios measure return risk changes portfolio investments under different investments. The experimental results show ...

Using 2000 U.S. Census data we illustrate the importance of accounting for household specialization in lesbian couples when examining the sexual orientation gap in female labor supply. Specifically, we find the labor supply gap is substantially larger between married women and partnered lesbian women who specialize in market production (primary earners) than between married women and partnered ...

We suggest that stabilizing the baseline income can make low-wage workers more tolerant towards high earners. present evidence of this attitude in UK by exploiting introduction National Minimum Wage (NMW), which institutionally sets a pay reducing risk losses and providing clear reference point for British at lower end distribution. Based on data from Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we show who ...

This study assessed environmental health practices in the traditional city of Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The 22 residential areas Ile-Ife were stratified into core, transition, and suburban zones. A systematic sampling technique was used selecting 327 respondents for questionnaire administration across Findings revealed that there poor among residents, although with variation is based on their socioecon...

The Peruvian society has achieved significant improvements in terms of lower fertility and mortality over the last forty years leading, on average, to a demographic transition with lower dependency ratios. We analyze the implications of these changes at the micro level by constructing pseudo panels from household level data for Peru. We calculate age, cohort and year effects for variables relat...