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The Role of Electoral Incentives for Policy Innovation : Evidence from the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2018

We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our …. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors with strong electoral support are less likely to experiment with … striving for reelection. The importance of electoral incentives is robust to controlling for governor ideology, voter …

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Welfare Benefit Reforms and Employment

Aloi, Marta - 2017

We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment benefits in favour of income subsidies (social...

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Consequences of the New UK Tax Exemption System : Evidence from Micro-Level Data

Egger, Peter H. - 2012

particularly changed incentives to repatriate profits. This paper assesses the effects of the reform on the foreign affiliates of …

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How Should Commodities Be Taxed? A Counterargument to the Recommendation in the Mirrlees Review

Bastani, Spencer - 2013

The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some goods consumed in conjunction with labour supply (such as child care) left untaxed. This paper examines the validity of this claim in an optimal income tax framework. Contrary to the recommendation...

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The Impact of Dividend Taxation on Dividends and Investment : New Evidence Based on a Natural Experiment

Kari, Seppo Juhani - 2009

There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment since the evidence is based mainly on the behaviour of large listed companies. This paper utilises a large register-based panel data set, where the vast majority of firms are...

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National Minimum Wage and Employment of Young Workers in the UK

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...

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The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages

Link, Sebastian - 2021

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically insignificant. In contrast, affected firms increased prices much...

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The Regional Effects of a National Minimum Wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2018

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from 2011 to 2016 and a difference‐in‐differences based...

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Efficiency in Family Bargaining : Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2007

In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...

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Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bellemare, Charles - 2018

We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities using a large scale field experiment. Applications were randomly sent to 1477 private firms advertising open positions. We find that average callback rates of disabled and...

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