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Estimates of employment and welfare effects of personal labour income taxation in a flat-tax country : The case of Estonia

Staehr, Karsten - Eesti Pank - 2008

This paper presents estimates of the employment and welfare effects of personal labour income taxation in Estonia. The labour supply decision of individuals is estimated based on data from the 2005 Estonian Labour Force Survey. Economic incentives are found to affect the participation decisions...

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Fiscal shocks and budget balance persistence in the EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Staehr, Karsten - Eesti Pank - 2011

This paper analyses the time series properties of the fiscal balance in the 10 EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe. The persistence of shocks in the variable is analysed by means of unit root tests that account for the possibility of non-linearities and structural changes. The results...

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Labour market research in Estonia : papers of the Research Seminar Tallinn, May 9, 2003

Hinnosaar, Marit (contributor) - 2003

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Estonian labor market institutions within a general equilibrium framework

Hinnosaar, Marit - Eesti Pank - 2004

The implications of the Estonian labor market policy reforms, such as changes to the minimum wage, social benefits and tax allowance, will be analysed using a simple applied general equilibrium model. The model used in the paper is from Bovenberg et al (2000), with the addition of an efficiency...

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Determinants of reservation wages: empirical evidence for Estonia

Malk, Liina - Eesti Pank - 2015

particular focus on the influence of unemployment duration. Data from the Estonian Labour Force Survey 2011–2013 and instrumental … characteristics, the household’s income level and the regional unemployment rate are important factors that affect reservation wage … setting. In addition, it appears that unemployment duration has a significant negative influence on the reservation wage …

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