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, results in welfare losses for at least a segment of the population, after a capital tax cut and a concurrent labour tax …
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The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...
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This book examines innovative theoretical perspectives and novel labour market policy responses to Europe's changing work demands, employment careers and life courses. It presents creative ideas and recommendations for flexicurity policies at various levels and in different social and economic...
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Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population … ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies … interdependencies with the labor market situation in Europe. We place particular emphasis on the issue of non-competitive wage setting …
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little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … differences in labor mobility and reallocation costs, which are typically ignored in American ?International Trade? textbooks … human capital investments: they are not independent of the aggregate state of labor markets, and in particular, frictions …
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Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging …, David Canning, Michael Moore, Younghwan Song -- Modeling the effects of population aging on consumption in the presence of … -- Population aging and health care spending in Japan : public- and private-sector responses / Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, Maliki …
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population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...
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In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
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This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the ?natural rate of unemployment …
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