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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...
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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 …
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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...
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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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Anatomy of a Health Scare : Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief period of time, some highly publicized research suggested...
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A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Research on self-employment has increased during recent years and particular attention has been paid to self-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this paper investigates variations in recruitment to...
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain , 1993–2000
Cervini, María; Ramos, Xavi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...
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Parents` Incomes and Children`s Outcomes : A Quasi-Experiment
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Keeler, Gordon; Angold, Adrian; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a … change in household income on the young adult outcomes of the household`s children... …
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