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Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2020

Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...

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Second-best properties of implicit social security taxes : theory and empirical evidence

Fenge, Robert; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2002

This paper investigates the inter-temporal structure of implicit taxes that arise in unfunded pension schemes. We demonstrate that these tax rates are declining over the life cycle. Using German micro-data for men and married women we estimate periodic wage elasticities of labour supply in order...

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Gathering support for green tax reform : evidence from German household surveys

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; Tovar Reaños, … - 2021

support can be mustered without hurting equity too much. We also investigate the effects of Germany meeting its legal target …

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2009

duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to … provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …, however, wages are decreasing in the type of the firm a worker is matched with. This prediction of theoretical sorting models …

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Tax competition, elastic labor supply, and growth

Hange, Ulrich (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we investigate the effects of tax competition in a simple endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply. Our analysis focuses on two issues. First, we show that all taxes, i.e. on capital, labor, and consumption, are harmful for growth. Second, we derive the optimal tax policy....

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Can poductive government spending be the engine of long-run growth when labor supply is engogenous?

Park, Hyun; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2002

We reexamine the properties of optimal fiscal policy and their implications for implementable capital accumulation. The setup is a standard endogenous growth model with public production services, augmented by elastic labor supply. We show that, when a benevolent government chooses a distorting...

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Unobserved tax avoidance and the tax elasticity of FDI

Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2014

This paper investigates the tax responsiveness of multinational firms’ investment decisions in foreign countries, distinguishing firms that are able to avoid taxes (avoiders) from those that are not (non-avoiders). From a theoretical point of view, the tax responsiveness of firms crucially...

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Who pays for the tariffs and why? : a tale of two countries

Feng, Chaonan; Han, Liyan; Li, Lei - 2023

product-level tariff pass-through and show that a higher ratio of import demand elasticity over export supply elasticity leads …

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To redistribute or to predistribute? : the minimum wage versus income taxation when workers differ in both wages and working hours

Gerritsen, Aart - 2023

I consider the case for the minimum wage alongside (optimal) income taxes when workers differ in both wages and working … social preferences for the lowest-wage workers are relatively strong and the wage elasticity of labor demand relatively small. …

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