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Taxing the Job Creators: Effcient Progressive Taxation with Wage Bargaining

Lawson, Nicholas - HAL - 2014

The standard economic view of the personal income tax is that it is a distortionary way of raising revenue which nonetheless has value because it tends to increase equality. However, when wages deviate from marginal product, the laissez-faire equilibrium is inefficient, and there can be an...

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Pro-competitive policies and the convergence of markups

Boulhol, Hervé - HAL - 2005

This paper gives estimates of sectoral markup trends over the last three decades. It concludes with a slight increase of price-cost margins overall, contrary to the generally expected effect of increased competition. More strikingly, it establishes a clear pattern of markup convergence across...

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Do capital market and trade liberalization trigger labor market deregulation ?

Boulhol, Hervé - HAL - 2006

Previous analyses showed that product market deregulation often precedes labor market (LM) reforms. This paper introduces LM imperfections within an economic geography framework, the level of optimal LM regulation being based on each country's social preferences. Due to capital mobility, opening...

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Price Dynamics in Japan (1981-2001): A StructuralAnalysis of Mechanisms in the Goods and LaborMarkets

Canry, Nicolas; Fouquau, Julien; Lechevalier, Sébastien - HAL - 2007

This paper aims to provide an alternative framework to previous studies of deflation in Japan. We focus on the real dimension of the price dynamics and propose an imperfect competition model, which describes a rent economy, where the formation of prices can be separated into the markup (level of...

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The convergence of price-cost margins

Boulhol, Hervé - HAL - 2005

This paper gives estimates of sectoral markup trends in thirteen OECD countries over the last three decades. It concludes with a slight, albeit heterogeneous, increase in price-cost margins (PCMs) overall, contrary to the generally expected effect of increased competition. More strikingly, it...

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Why Haven't Price-Cost Margins Decreased with Globalization ?

Boulhol, Hervé - HAL - 2006

This study analyzes the determinants of price-cost margins (PCMs) for OECD countries between 1970-2003. The main objective is to quantify the pro-competitive effect of international trade and understand why, despite trade liberalization, PCMs have not fallen overall. An increase of one...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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The Local Determinants of Victimization

Hémet, Camille - HAL - 2013

neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …

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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?

Gatti, Donatella; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - HAL - 2009

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

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The political economy of job protection and income redistribution

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - HAL - 2005

This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...

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