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Working time reduction and employment in a finite world
Fagnart, Jean-François; Germain, Marc; Van der Linden, … - 2021
production to zero, we show that the effects of a WTR on (un)employment depend on the abundance of natural capital. If it is …
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Corporate income taxes around the world : a survey on forward-looking tax measures and two applications
Steinmüller, Elias; Thunecke, Georg U.; Wamser, Georg - 2018
This study provides a survey on corporate taxes around the world. Our analysis has three main objectives. First, we collect tax data and calculate (forward-looking) effective tax measures for a large sample of countries and recent years. We particularly describe how these measures vary over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847579
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?
Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354080
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay...
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Getting life expectancy estimates right for pension policy : period versus cohort approach
Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge; Holzmann, Robert - 2018 - Revised version, as of 4.11.2018
In many policy areas it is essential to use the best estimates of life expectancy, but it is vital to most areas of pension policy. This paper presents the conceptual differences between static period and dynamic cohort mortality tables, estimates the differences in life expectancy for Portugal...
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Occupations shape retirement across countries
Sauré, Philip; Seibold, Arthur; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; … - 2023
We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement...
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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014
1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375378
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Cross-country unemployment insurance, transfers, and trade-offs in international risk sharing
Enders, Zeno; Vespermann, David - 2021
allocative efficiency and apply our results to the implicit transfers generated by a potential European unemployment benefit … consumption as well as unemployment differentials. Following supply shocks, however, the cross-country transfer embodied in the … unemployment benefits is spent to a large degree on relatively inefficiently produced goods in the receiving countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491596
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
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