Similar Search Results

Taxes, Transfers and the Distribution of Employment in Mexico

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Leal Ordóñez, Julio C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The informal sector accounts for a substantial fraction of employed population in Mexico and other Latin American countries. In this paper we study the interaction between the tax and transfers system and the size and composition of informal sector. To do that we build a search model that can be...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151618

The Determinants of Human Migration

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1978

This multi-faceted study address a variety of topics. It first develops a formal model of why interregional wage differentials may not elicit interregional migration. Then it provides empirical support for the model. The study develops a formal model general theory of migration. It demonstrates...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108769

Administering Foreign-Worker Programs

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1982

The issue of illegal aliens has received considerable attention in recent years. Concern over the problem of illegal aliens has promulgated an array of efforts by the federal government to examine and revise immigration statutes and practices. Indeed, much debate has arisen over the possibility...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114361

Social security and retirement across OECD countries

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

There are large differences in the employment to population ratio relative to the US across OECD countries, and these differences are even larger for the old age (55-69 years). There are also large differences in various features of social security, such as the replacement rate, the entitlement...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540982

Social Security and Retirement across OECD Countries

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549596

Tax and Transfer Programs in an Incomplete Markets Model

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Rogerson, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We assess the consequences of increases in the scale of tax and transfer programs in the context of a model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks and incomplete markets. We contrast the outcomes for both hours worked and welfare relative to the results obtained in a stand-in household model,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549599

Social Security and Retirement across the OECD

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Employment to population ratios differ markedly across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, especially for people aged over 55 years. In addition, social security features differ markedly across the OECD, particularly with respect to features such as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107614

Interregional Income Determination: A Graphical Analysis for Interdependent Economies

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1971

This theoretical analysis develops a model for analyzing public policy in interdependent economies. The model allows for feed-backs between the commodity, money, and labor markets in all of the economic systems. Regionally oriented monetary policies are fully analyzed, as are regional oriented...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107783

Determinants of the Rate of Return on Commercial Bank Assets in the United States, 1959-1998

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Act of 1991 and a decreasing function of inflation, the percentage unemployment rate, and the increased competition that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112165

Analysis of Net Interstate Migration: Comment

Cebula, Richard; Schaffer, Beverly - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1974

migrants on the other hand. This study specifies that white migration should be treated as a function of white unemployment … rate and white income levels, whereas black migration should be a function of black unemployment rates and black income … levels. The reasoning is simple: the levels of black and white unemployment rates and incomes are very different. The end …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108967