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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Edo, Anthony - 2017
state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and …
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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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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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Optimal Income Taxation in Unionized Labor Markets
Hummel, Albert Jan - 2018
unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally …
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer - 2014
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2018
With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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Restrictive Immigration Policy in Germany : Pains and Gains Foregone?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2021
Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and …
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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare
Borck, Rainald - 2021
This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems...
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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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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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