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Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Peter, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia's 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expenditures and reported earnings as a proxy for tax evasion with data from a household panel for 1998-2004. Utilizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089307
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The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Early Retirement of Public Sector Employees
Slavov, Sita Nataraj; Shoven, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Most private sector workers with employer-provided health insurance have a strong incentive to continue working until Medicare eligibility in order to maintain group health coverage. However, most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which allows them access to group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252331
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The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices
Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
on wages. <br><br>As this became known among gastroenterologists, an opportunity arose to reorganize the market to once …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714790
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The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers into the Public Sector
Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
This paper uses data from the U.S. Decennial Census and the Current Population Surveys to document the differential shifts that occurred in the wage structures of the public and privatesectors between 1960 and 2000. The wage gap between the typical public sector worker and a comparable private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828955
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Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector
Ruhm, Christopher; Borkoski, Carey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
are as follows. First, holding constant individual characteristics, average weekly wages are 11 percent lower in nonprofit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829689
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Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts
Niederle, Muriel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
effects of a centralized match on wages of medical residents. Bulow and Levin (forthcoming) propose a simple model of the NRMP … aggregate wages compared to any competitive outcome. This paper models a feature present in the NRMP, ordered contracts, that … low wage equilibrium of Bulow and Levin is not robust to this feature of the NRMP, and competitive wages are once more an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050239
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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Card, David E.; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
wages results from a combination of rising heterogeneity between workers, rising variability in the wage premiums at …
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Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990, the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers rose by 83% in six years. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data to investigate the determinants of this wage growth and some of its implications. For the 1990-1991 period I...
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Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration From Rural Mexico to the United States
Richter, Susan M.; Taylor, J. Edward; Naude, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Using new survey data from Mexico, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of policy changes on the flow of migrant labor from rural Mexico to the United States and test for differential effects of policy changes on male and female migration. We find that both IRCA and NAFTA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084743
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The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges
Wei, Shang-Jin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Fan, Shenggen; Kanbur, Ravi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China--the past experience and the future prospects. Our...
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