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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare … states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax … reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822885
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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological …, both in the US and in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884275
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252285
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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151029
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The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements across Socio-Economic Groups
Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Mathias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371178