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Faut-il subventionner les emplois à temps partiel ?
Alexis, PARMENTIER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006
Cet article montre que dans le cadre d’un modèle d’appariement, la coexistence d’emplois de durées du travail différentes peut s’expliquer par des intensités capitalistiques propres à certaines activités. les firmes sont supposées financer seules le capital nécessaire à la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984728
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Basic income, unemployment and job scarcity
GROOT, Loek - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004
The main claim of this paper is that in a world of equal entitlements to work rights the justification for a basic income is stronger, and that its level should be higher. the higher the level of unemployment or job scarcity. Point of departure is an economy with job scarcity. A fair way to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985456
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From the EU Savings Directive to the US FATCA, Taxing Cross Border Savings Income
GERARD, Marcel; GRANELLI, Lucia - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
This paper is motivated by the recent innovations regarding the taxation of cross-border savings that took place in the … taxation used on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. We consider agents as investors able to diversify their portfolio between … taxation of foreign savings income, but also on the tax rates applied to domestic savings. Finally, comparing the respective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633536
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Non-équivalence ricardienne, chocs fiscaux et fluctuations dans une petite économie ouverte
BORGY, Vladimir; HAIRAULT, Jean-Olivier - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2001
L'objectif de ce papier est d'évaluer la capacité de différents types de chocs fiscaux à améliorer l'explication des fluctuations de l'économie française considérée comme une petite économie ouverte. Ainsi, nous développons un modèle d'équilibre général intertemporel stochastique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985423
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with both Extensive and Intensive Responses
JACQUET, Laurence; LEHMANN, Etienne; LINDEN, Bruno VAN DER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
We derive a general optimal income tax formula when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins and when income effects can prevail. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: their skill and their disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and...
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Signing distortions in optimal tax and other adverse selection problems with random participation
JACQUET, Laurence; LEHMANN, Etienne; LINDEN, Bruno VAN DER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533745
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Take it or Leave it : Optimal Transfer Programs, Monitoring and Takeup
JACQUET, Laurence - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
This paper studie the optimal income redistribution and monitoring when disability benefits are intended for disabled people but where some able agents with high distastes for work mimic them (type II errors). Labour supply responses are at the extensive margin and endogenous takeup costs burden...
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A Normative Analysis of Wage Subsidies and Unemployment Benefits Under Fixed Number of Working Hours
LÓPEZ, Salvador - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1994
In recent years Western governments have introduced a number of emergency measures in their fight against short run unemployment. In this paper a normative analysis concerning the joint implementation of two such measures is offered, viewing unemployment as involuntary, and taking account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550107
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Family Policies: What Does The Standard Endogenous Fertility Model Tell Us?
BAUDIN, Thomas - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must determine their optimal trade-off between quality and quantity. The present paper works to fill that gap and find three main results. First, when there exist positive externalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497803
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Flexicurity in Belgium. A Proposal Based on Economic Principles
COCKX, Bart; LINDEN, Bruno VAN DER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an economic environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically lon-lastingand stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505479