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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor...
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It's So Hard to Get Good Help
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have millions more jobs in manufacturing, if only we had qualified workers. This claim has the interesting feature that it places responsibility for the lack of jobs on workers, not on the people who get...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651287
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The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities
Schmitt, John; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011
This report analyzes the wage and employment effects of the first three city-specific minimum wages in the United States –San Francisco (2004), Santa Fe (2004), and Washington, DC (1993). We use data from a virtual census of employment in each of the three cities, surrounding suburbs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921764
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Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany
Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011
-market difficulties. Labor-market institutions seem to explain the different developments in the two economies. Danish institutions …-market institutions, which emphasize job security by keeping workers connected to their current employers, may have drawbacks when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024458
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In-Work Benefi ts and Unemployment
Tonin, Mirco; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment,compared to a framework in which wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360547
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?
Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360534
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …
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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget …
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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market:First Results from the Euro Experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects ofdifferent labor market institutions on macroeconomic …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and outputvolatility. The eurozone … labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they donot seem to have much of an effect on inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360591
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Trade and Unemployment:What Do the Data Say?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using:(i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures … institutions do notappear to condition the effect of openness.... …
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