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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R and D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372
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Deriving the New Quantity Equation: An Approach for a Closed and an Open Economy
Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This theoretical contribution shows a simple way in which the quantity equation can be derived as a long-term equilibrium solution for the case of a closed economy and an open economy, respectively. It is shown first for the case of a closed economy which parameters stand behind "velocity" and...
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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the native-born. The exogeneity and the size of this inflow make it a "natural experiment" of macroeconomic proportions. An open-economy macroeconomic model is used to analyze this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703407
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Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?
Beissinger, Thomas; Buesse, Oliver - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive feature of the analysis is the comparison of both...
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The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects
Beissinger, Thomas; Buesse, Oliver - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover effects are caused by changes in world real income. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762260
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Ist Deutschland wirklich so progressiv? Einkommensumverteilung im europäischen Vergleich
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Deutschland wird im europäischen Vergleich häufig ein überdurchschnittlich progressives Steuersystem attestiert. Die einzigartige, mehrstufige Progressionsformel der Einkommensteuer trägt ohne Zweifel zu dieser Sichtweise bei. Um ein umfassendes Bild der Progressivität eines Gesamtsystems...
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The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?
Marx, Ive; Salanauskaite, Lina; Verbist, Gerlinde - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Wildasin, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885181
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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage
Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...
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