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Do Countries Compensate Firms for International Wage Differentials?
Mittermaier, Ferdi - 2010
We address the role of labor cost differentials for national tax policies. Using a simple theoretical framework with two countries competing for a mobile firm, we show that in a bidding race for FDI, it is optimal for governments to compensate firms for international labor cost differentials....
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Optimal Income Taxation with Uncertain Earnings : A Synthesis
Boadway, Robin - 2011
We study optimal nonlinear income taxation when earnings can differ because of both ability and luck, so the income tax has both a redistributive role and an insurance role. A substantial literature on optimal redistribution in the absence of uncertainty has evolved since Mirrlees' original...
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The Incidence of Bank Regulations and Taxes on Wages : Evidence from US States
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2012
taxes on bank wages. As the corporate tax may be borne by labor, a natural question to ask is whether the economic incidence … regulatory incidence by estimating the degree to which banking regulations and company taxes on banks influence wages in the … banking sector. We use individual data on wages combined with data from US states on the states' tax rates and timing of …
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
Behrens, Kristian - 2012
firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are …
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Labor Income Responds Differently to Income-Tax and Payroll-Tax Reforms
Lehmann, Etienne - 2012
-tax schedule, combined with sticky posted wages (i.e., the gross labor income minus payroll taxes divided by hours worked). Finally …
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Trade, Wages, and Profits
Egger, Hartmut - 2012
, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of …
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Wages and Recruitment : Evidence from External Wage Changes
Falch, Torberg - 2013
This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s, the wage setting for certified teachers in Norway was completely centralized, with a wage premium of about 10 percent at schools with severe recruitment problems in the past...
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Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor Income Responsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates
Blomquist, Soren - 2009
Recently, a voluminous literature estimating the taxable income elasticity has emerged as an important field in empirical public economics. However, to a large extent it is still unknown how the hourly wage rate, an important component of taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates....
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'Unwarranted' Wage Changes and the Return on Capital
Katsimi, Margarita - 2009
models, in which “unwarranted” wages changes and the return on capital are endogenously determined, do not necessarily …
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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - a Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van - 2008
Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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