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Pension-Induced Rigidities in the Labor Market for School Leaders

Koedel, Cory; Grissom, Jason A.; Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, … - CESifo - 2011

Educators in public schools in the United States are typically enrolled in defined-benefit pension plans, which penalize across-plan mobility. We use administrative data from Missouri to examine how the mobility penalties affect the labor market for school leaders. We show that pension borders...

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The Efficiency and Equity of the Tax and Transfer System in France

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2013

Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...

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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers’ bargaining...

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Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful

Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2009

We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.

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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies

Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - CESifo - 2013

We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-) distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD...

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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000

Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2010

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...

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Spatial Inequality and Development - Is there an Inverted-U Relationship?

Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2011

This paper studies the hypothesis of an inverted-U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic development. The theory of Kuznets (1955) and Williamson (1965) suggests that (spatial) inequality first increases in the process of development, then peaks, and then decreases. To test...

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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...

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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?

Ceglowski, Janet; Golub, Stephen - CESifo - 2011

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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