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Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates

Liebig, Thomas; Puhani, Patrick A.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We investigate the relationship between income tax rate variation and internal migration for the unique case of Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level results in enough variation to permit analysis of their influence on migration. Specifically, using...

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Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are particular cases of our framework. Comparing them we obtain several equivalence results in terms...

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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five …

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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

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Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? A Case Study of Australia

Junankar, P. N.; Paul, Satya; Yasmeen, Wahida - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants...

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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross …

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from … from greater transitory fluctuations in earnings and individuals facing a higher degree of earnings mobility? Or is this … rise reflecting increasing permanent differences between individuals with mobility remaining constant or even falling? Are …

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Selection Wages: An Example

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax...

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

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

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply … dynamic optimization theory. We develop a general framework for the labor market where the search for a job involves dynamic …

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