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Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology
Bonin, Holger; Patxot, Concepció - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging intertemporal imbalance in government finances facing demographic transition. Starting from the fiscal balance rule providing the theoretical background, we review the methods of generational accountants for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822088
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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763705
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Labor Retrenchment Laws and their Effect on Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
Basu, Kaushik; Fields, Gary S.; Debgupta, Shub - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
is to be retrenched. This paper builds a theoretical model to analyze the effects of such anti-retrenchment laws. Our … model reveals that an anti-retrenchment law can cause wages and employment to rise or fall, depending on the parametric … conditions prevailing in the market. We then use this simple model to isolate conditions under which an anti-retrenchment law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762018
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Incidence of a "Social VAT" Reform: A French Scenario
Rebiere, Therese - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies the fiscal incidence of a fiscal reform consisting of a reduction in employers' social insurance contributions financed by a tax based on the value added. In a closed economy with two sectors calibrated thanks to the French National Accounts, a "social VAT" leads to a rise in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603515
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Steuerstrukturreform trotz leerer Kassen?!
Hetzer, Nina; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In Deutschland wird eine umfassende Steuerstrukturreform bereits seit Jahren kontrovers diskutiert. Mit dem Eintritt der FDP in die Regierungsverantwortung erhält diese Debatte derzeit besondere Aktualität. Dieser Beitrag argumentiert, dass trotz oder gerade wegen leerer öffentlicher Kassen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615428
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Burden or Relief? Fiscal Impacts of Recent Ukrainian Migration to Poland
Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Immigration has become recently one of the most important subjects in socio-economic debates. In many countries immigrants are commonly presented as a threat to host economies and societies. On top of this fiscal impacts of immigration are ones of the hottest and most controversial topics in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143952
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional preconditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703504
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The public sector employs a large share of the labor force to execute important functions (e.g. regulation and public good provision) in an environment beset by severe agency problems. Attracting workers who are motivated to serve the public interest is important to mitigate these problems. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781556
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568310