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Do labour taxes (and their composition) affect wages in the short and in the long run?

Arpaia, Alfonso; Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2004

Measures aimed at reducing the tax burden on labour have been advocated to alleviate the EU unemployment problem. Most of the analyses document a relationship between the unemployment rate and the tax burden on labour. Hence, it is not possible to discern whether the effect on unemployment...

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POBREZA Y VIOLECIA EN COLOMBIA: AGENDA DE DIAGNÓSTICOS Y SOLUCIONES

Vivas, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004

; violencias; desempleo; narcotráfico; clientelismo político; corrupción e impunidad? Para lograrlo, en el planteamiento de los …

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ASIMETRÍA, PERSISTENCIA Y NO LINEALIDAD DE LA TASA DE DESEMPLEO ESPAÑOL

García, José María Casado; Trívez, F. Javier - EconWPA - 2004

The Asymmetry or counter-cycle nature and its influence on the persistence of the registered unemployment rate is a traditional topic of the economics theory’s analysis. However, studies of the Spanish unemployment done up to now have not dealt with asymmetry. General studies about Spanish...

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Pautas cíclicas en el desempleo europeo

Heras, Raquel Llorente - EconWPA - 2005

A través del estudio de la dispersión entre las diferentes tasas de desempleo, el artículo comienza confirmando que … cíclica del desempleo dentro de cada uno de los países miembros de la UE esta contribuyendo a dicho proceso. Es decir, se … trata de ver si se puede aproximar un proceso de acercamiento o no entre los ciclos del desempleo europeos. Si los ciclos …

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TAX INCIDENCE IN A MODEL WITH EFFICIENCY WAGES AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Rapanos, Vassilis T - EconWPA - 2004

The purpose of the present paper is to examine the effects of taxation on income distribution in a model with efficiency wages and involuntary unemployment. Central to the efficiency-wage theory is the hypothesis that firms may set wages above market-clearing levels, whenever the productivity of...

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A Two-Dimensional Criterion for Tax Policy Evaluation. A Primer from the Reform of Personal Income Taxation in Russia.

Nekipelov, Denis - EconWPA - 2004

The comparison of different tax schedules is a problem of high dimensionality. In the current paper it is proved that under very general assumptions a utilitarian welfare function and an inequality index compose a sufficient statistic for the after-tax welfare distribution, reducing...

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THE DISTRIBUTION OF AVERAGE AND MARGINAL EFFECTIVE TAX RATES IN EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES.

Immervoll, Herwig - EconWPA - 2003

Macro-based summary indicators of effective tax burdens cannot provide information on the level or distribution of the marginal effective tax rates thought to influence household behaviour. They also do not capture differences in effective tax rates facing different subgroups of the population....

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Financial Development, Labor and Market Regulations and Growth

FONSECA, Raquel; GONZALEZ, Natalia UTRERO- - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the importance that market regulation and financial imperfections have on …rm growth. We analyse institutions affecting labor market as Employment Protection Laws (EP) and Product Market Regulation (PM). We show that together with the beneficial effects of …nancial...

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Monopoly Power and Optimal Taxation of Labor Income

Selim, Sheikh Tareq - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the Ramsey problem of optimal labor income taxation in a simple model economy which deviates from a first best representative agent economy in three important aspects, namely, flat rate second best tax, monopoly power in intermediate product market, and monopolistic wage...

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Government size and output volatility: is there a relationship?

Virén, Matti - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides some further tests for the proposition that a larger public sector leads to smaller output volatility. Both Gali and Fatas & Mihov have provided some evidence which appears to support this proposition. Their evidence is, however, based on a relatively small sample of...

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