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A case for taxing education
Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Tsadḳah, Efrayim (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003075976
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A case for taxing education
Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Tsadḳah, Efrayim (contributor) - 2005
We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002756339
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The wage gap and public support for social security
Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Swagel, Phillip - In: The American economic review 92 (2002) 2, pp. 390-395
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001706730
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The signaling role of charitable contributions by business : a tax policy perspective
Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2016
Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541311
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Charitable contributions by businesses : a tax policy perspective
Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2019
Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods by businesses may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103589
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Matching for risk-taking : overconfident bankers and government-protected banks
Haufler, Andreas; Kassner, Bernhard - 2024
that have different degrees of overconfidence. The channel through which the matching occurs is the share of bonus payments … to an assortative matching between overconfident managers and banks with a larger bailout probability. We then test the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015065269
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J.G. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160145
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On the desirability of taxing charitable contributions
Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Tsadḳah, Efrayim (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003463017
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A theory of wage adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers' perceived utility losses from wage decreases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from wage increases of equal magnitude. Wage changes are evaluated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465159
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461