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Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence

Tonin, Mirco - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

bysome agents, thus reducing their disposable income. The comparison of food consumptionand of the consumption-income gap …

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Social Support Shopping: Evidence from a RegressionDiscontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne C.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance programgenerates spillovers onto other social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuityin the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to estimate the causal effect of exit fromdisability insurance (DI)...

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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec:A Microeconomic Approach

Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’sunderground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Ourapproach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended byLyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic hypothesis...

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Bringing Financial Literacy and Education toLow and Middle Income Countries: The Need toReview, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom

Holzmann, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

the lessons ofhigh-income countries with financial literacy programs and the deviating characteristics of lowand middle … income countries. While progress has been made in high-income countries tomeasure financial capability, there is little …

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Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives:Theory and Evidence

Frederiksen, Anders - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization.The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain theirentry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observedheterogeneity in earnings...

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Optimal Redistributive Taxation withBoth Extensive and Intensive Responses

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both theintensive and extensive margins …. Employing a tax perturbation approach, we derive an optimal tax formula thatgeneralizes previous results by allowing for income …

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Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence froma Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece

Saez, Emmanuel; Matsaganis, Manos; Tsakloglou, Panos - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-basedreform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently amuch higher earnings cap for payroll taxes, creating a large and permanent discontinuity inmarginal payroll tax rates by...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

‘income’). This is the caseeven when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for spellsin … instrumentalvariables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, wefind (indirect) support for the …

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons

Amin, Vikesh; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

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