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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market:Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affectedChinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded tothe events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese nationals present inthe U.S. It first suspended all forced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486876
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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
wages given up as an employee.Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just … it is not only the location of an income distribution thatmatters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009496228
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions andEarnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
While results are starting to emerge, not much is known yet about the dynamics of the labormarkets of the former Eastern economies, especially in the context of the current FinancialCrisis. Arguably, this is mainly due to paucity of (panel) data. By examining labor markettransitions, earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522192
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Labor Earnings Respond Differently toIncome-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms
Lehmann, Etienne; Marical, François; Rioux, Laurence - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
themarginal net-of-income-tax rate is around 0.2, while we find no response to the marginal netof-payroll-tax rate. The elasticity … with respect to the average net-of-tax rates is not significantfor the income-tax schedule, while it is close to -1 for the … payroll-tax schedule. A plausibleexplanation is the existence of significant labor supply responses to the income-tax schedule …
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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively littleattention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its maincharacteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budgetsets are convex and...
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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends
Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870043
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A Look at Real Housing Prices and Incomes: Some Implications for Housing Affordability and Quality
Gyourko, Joseph E.; Tracy, Joseph - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
affordability forhouseholds at the bottom of the income distribution. Real house prices at the lower end of the price distribution …
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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues
Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
now furnish material onsources of noninterest income and the amounts earned thatis much more detailed than the information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870063
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National and Regional Factors in the New York Metropolitan Economy
MacCarthy, Jonathan; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997
This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870273
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Bairoch Revisited. Tariff Structure and Growth in the Late 19th Century
Tena-Junguito, Antonio - Universidad Carlos III <Madrid> / Departamento de Economía; … - 2009
results show that income, factor endowment, and policy independence are important to explain regional asymmetries between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870482