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Increases in income tax progressivity generally entail some efficiency cost due to increased distortion of individuals' labor supply decisions. This paper quantifies the magnitude of the efficiency cost of several policies which would increase the progressivity of the U.S. individual income tax....
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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands im internationalen Vergleich. Sie … Treiber des Wertschöpfungs- und Beschäftigungswachstums in allen Ländern ist, weist Deutschland jedoch einige Schwächen auf …
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Like most Western European countries, Germany stringently regulates dismissals and layoffs. Critics contend that this … Germany. We find little evidence that inventories help to buffer demand fluctuations in either country. Our findings suggest …
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States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …
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In dieser Studie wird die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands im internationalen Vergleich untersucht. Sie …. Dagegen weist Deutschland bei wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen eine deutliche Schwäche auf. Das betrifft auch deren … aufnehmen. Im Zeitraum von 2011 bis 2021 sind für Deutschland stabile komparative Vorteile in der Außenhandelsspezialisierung …
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This paper develops a model of a small open economy that produces an export good with domestic labour and imported energy and is stuck in an unemployment situation resulting from an excessive fixed net-of-tax wage rate. We study a revenue-neutral green tax reform that substitutes energy for wage...
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This paper employs MIMIC, an applied general equilibrium model of the Dutch economy, to explore various tax cuts aimed at combating unemployment and raising labor supply. MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical foundation detailed description of Dutch labor-market...
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This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...
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