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Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity

LEHMANN, Etienne; LUCIFORA, Claudio; MORICONI, Simone; … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … wage-moderation effect and increases overall employment since employment of low-paid workers is more responsive. We test … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …

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Impact of Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation

Olivier, PIERARD - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004

reproduces the empirical evidence that the impacts on employment, of reductions in contributions at the minimum wage level, go … prejudical to average productivity, reductions targeted at the minimum wage create much more net employment than reductions …

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Does Labour Market Rationing Entail (Involuntary) Unemployment ?

De Vroey, M. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1994

This article argues in favor of drawing a distinction between the concepts of labour rationing and unemployment, the former referring to the occurrence of excess supply in a given labour market, the latter to job-waiting activity. In a first part, the literature on the possible consequences of...

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A Dynamic Contracting Model for Wages and Employment in three European Economies

de la Croix, David; Palm, Franz; Pfann, Gerard - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1993

that of the neo-classical model in explaining the dynamics of employment and wages in the three countries. …

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Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

TURCO, Alessia LO; MAGGIONI, Daniela; PICCHIO, Matteo - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases...

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Tariff reductions, trade patterns and the wage gap

Comite, Francesco Di; Nocco, Antonella; Orefice, Gianluca - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015

-driven wage gap and a reduction in unskilled employment. This prediction is empirically validated using EU-KLEMS data on country …

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Networks for Free Trade Agreements among Heterogeneous Countries

Ana, MAULEON; Huasheng, SONG; Vincent, VANNETELBOSCH - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006

The paper examnes the formation of free trade agreements as a network formation game. We consider a three-country model in which international trade occurs between economies with imperfectly competitive product markets. Labor markets can be unionized and non-unionized in each country. We show...

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Intersectoral adjustment and unemployment in a two-country Ricardian model

LAUSSEL, Didier; MICHEL, Philippe; Paul, Thierry - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004

In a two-country Ricardian model, we study the dynamics of intersectoral reallocation of labour following upon a once and for ail move to free trade. The job creation/destruction process in both sectors is slow and this results in unemployment during the transition toward the long run free trade...

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Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter

Croix, David de la; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

of finding a job. These results imply that neglecting labor market frictions and employment rate changes may seriously …

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Assessing education's contribution to productivity using firm-level evidence

LEBEDINSKI, Lara; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

There is plenty of individual-level evidence, based on the estimation of Mincerian equations, showing that better-educated individuals earn more. This is usually interpreted as a proof that education raises labour productivity. Some macroeconomists, analysing cross-country time series, also...

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