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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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International Migration of Couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....

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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...

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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008

affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost …

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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2005

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show … with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children’s education. This result holds …

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Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a … motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the … future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the …

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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2001

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a “European economy” with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax...

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Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment

Lau, Morten I.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2001

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals’ incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...

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Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2005

country with flat-rate benefits may reduce their investment in education. With suitably planned transfers between the two …

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To Draft or not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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