Similar Search Results

Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404177

Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes

Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022

Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440408

Premium differentiation in the unemployment insurance system and the demand for labor

Alessie, Rob; Bloemen, Hans G. - 2000

Insurance system on the demand for labor for a variety of sectors in the Dutch economy. For the simulations we use the Bentolila …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303318

Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017

This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583471

Deskilling among manufacturing production workers

Kunst, David - 2019

methods has affected the demand for different groups of manufacturing production workers. In this article, I use new … occupational wage and employment data to document a global decline in the relative demand for skilled production workers in … collar workers. However, the demand for manufacturing craftsmen decreased in countries of all income groups and regions over …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053569

Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?

Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019

A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025990