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Is Prescott Right? Welfare State Policies and the Incentives to Work, Learn and Retire
Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2008
This paper bolsters Prescott’s (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in … continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and … endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181523
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The March of the Techies : Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James - 2016
Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987341
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Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2011
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009221559
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Minimum Wage Incidence: The Case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008
Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765743
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Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008
Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094296
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: the Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say’s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051503
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Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control : Theory and Evidence
Ooghe, Erwin - 2011
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122256
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160043
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The Efficiency and Equity of the Tax and Transfer System in France
Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2013
Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641417
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Optimal Taxation of Human Capital and theEarnings Function
Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, Lans - CESifo - 2008
. If education is complementary to labor effort, education should be subsidized to offset tax distortions on labor supply … neither taxed nor subsidized. In particular, with non-linear tax instruments, education should be weakly separable from labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765751