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On Amenities, Natural Advantage and Agglomeration

Krupka, Douglas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

and wages move in the same direction under neo-classical assumptions, agglomeration economies in production, congestion in … congestion in production or the agglomeration in consumption models. The micro-economics of such consumption … thus suggest that consumption-oriented agglomeration and congestion should receive more attention in the future. …

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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …

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Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Krupka, Douglas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Urbanization economies – the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities – are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast...

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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...

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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?

Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, the government, which does not observe the...

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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences for singles and couples as...

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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alesina, Alberto; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...

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Nice Guys Finish Last: Are People with Higher Tax Morale Taxed More Heavily?

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Fuest, Clemens; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale'. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that 'nice guys finish last': groups with higher...

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Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model

Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli, Marilena; Narazani, Edlira; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue...

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