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Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Outsourcing and labor taxation in dual labor markets

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

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Flexible outsourcing and the impacts of labour taxation in European welfare states

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual...

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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2009

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Taking Stock of the Results for OECD and Non-OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2020

whether policy effects vary across countries depending on the level of economic development and whether institutions have an … influence on economic outcomes. The paper lists of policies and institutions that could be used to quantify the effect of …

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The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Extending the Framework to Emerging Market Economies

Egert, Balazs - 2018

non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes …

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Regulation, Institutions and Aggregate Investment: New Evidence from OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2017

of (legal) institutions alters the overall impact of regulations on capital deepening: better institutions reduce the …

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The Quantification of Structural Reforms in OECD Countries: A New Framework

Egert, Balazs; Gal, Peter - 2017

This document describes and discusses a new supply side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries. It presents the overall macroeconomic impacts of reforms by aggregating over the effects on physical capital, employment and productivity...

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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing under labour market imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2007

high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …

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