Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

DWS data to examine how the difference in wage losses across plant closings and layoffs varies with race and gender. We … demonstrate that the racial and gender effects are surprisingly robust to region, industry, and occupation controls. To look at …

This paper investigates gender differences across the log wage distributions of British employees working full-time in … 2005. The raw gender wage gap shows a tendency to increase across the distribution with a glass ceiling effect indicated. A … substantially larger gender earning gap is found: the selection corrected gender wage gap is close to twice the raw gap across most …

selective subsidies to parts of the formal sector. Labour market and business taxation reforms are particularly important to …

reforms and labor market regulation. We then set out a theoretical model of taxation and migration, which is structurally …

international comparison the key characteristics and recent developments of labour costs, taxation and productivity in Austria and …

We develop a simple model to study how relative wage rigidity affects equilibrium taxation. It is argued that relative …, people vote first on wage rigidity and second on redistributive taxation. The rigid society has a lower tax rate than the …