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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....

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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

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Participation Tax Rates in Finland, Earnedincome Tax Credit Investigated

Mauri, Kotamäki - 2016

Previous estimates on participation tax rates (PTRs) are reviewed and new, updated PTR estimates of the Finnish case are provided with 2013 data. The results indicate that there has been an increase in the average PTR in Finland after 2011. The sensitivity of PTR calculations is tested in order...

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Longevity and patience

Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes; Sunde, Uwe - 2019

Why does patience vary across individuals and countries? We provide evidence on a widely-hypothesized mechanism, namely that higher longevity fosters patience. Using data on patience for 80,000 individuals in 76 countries, this paper relates exogenous variation in longevity across...

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Agricultural productivity shocks and poverty in India : the short- and long-term effects of monsoon rainfall

Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019

This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian … yield is short-lived, but elicits a persistent decline (increase) in wages (food prices). Negative local shocks affect only … wages, but not prices. This indicates that, in the food market, intra-regional trading mitigates the impact of local shocks …

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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States : a categorization and recent trends

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024

This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...

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Trade, wages and productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2009

-US interregional trade data, we structurally estimate a theory-based gravity equation system featuring endogenous wages and … Canada-US border on regional market aggregates such as wages, productivity, markups, the mass of varieties produced and …

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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

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Eclipse of rent-sharing: the effects of managers' business education on wages and the labor share in the US and Denmark

Acemoglu, Daron; He, Alex Xi; Le Maire, Daniel - 2023

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The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressure

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2023

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