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Caught in the trap? : the disincentive effect of social assistance

Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009

While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...

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Fiscal sustainability and demographic change : a micro approach for 27 EU countries

Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2015

The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and 2030 on labor force participation and government budgets in the EU-27. Our analysis involves the...

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A search model of unemployment and inflation

Lehmann, Etienne (contributor) - 2006

money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers' bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate …. -- inflation ; unemployment ; search-matching ; Friedman rule …

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Beyond the labour income tax wedge : the unemployment-reducing effect of tax progressivity

Lehmann, Etienne; Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2014

suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …

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On the optimality of search matching equilibrium when workers are risk averse

Lehmann, Etienne (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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