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Family Bargaining and Taxes:A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation
Pollak, Robert A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins byreviewing unitary and bargaining models of intrafamily allocation, and then discusses thedeterminants of "bargaining power" in a world without taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861560
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economicsectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on thesubstitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformationbetween agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863374
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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486873
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Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences : The Case of Italy
Caponi, Vincenzo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859493
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860475
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies
Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861375
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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment:New Insights on the Nordic Experience
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission …-equation unemployment rate models... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861659
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection andUnemployment
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in asearch model with heterogeneous … rate of unemployment... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863042
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863113
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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863250