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This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
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systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by …
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A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
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' domestic outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some offshoring, and it … for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive. -- offshoring … ; import competition ; wage bargaining ; oligopoly ; redistribution …
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Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
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