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In this paper six authors propose guidelines for German labor market policy, to overcome current discouragement and lead to a new balance of social security and individual competetiveness. Crucial aspects in this regard should be a reformed tax system based on excise instead of income taxes, and...
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distortions in the transport market. In absence of these distortions and despite spatial terms in wages, the standard condition …
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. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages …
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different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education … subsidy either the education cost or wages and compare them. We found that the first best allocation can only be implemented … firms and show that, in terms of welfare, subsidizing education costs or wages is strictly equivalent. …
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We develop an urban-search model in which firms post wages. When all workers are identical, the Diamond paradox holds … conditions, two wages emerge in equilibrium. The commuting cost affects the land market but also the labor market through wages …
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Restrictions on work hours are more important in countries with a large welfare state. We show that this empirical observation is consistent with the strategic effects of such restrictions in a welfare state in the context of optimal direct taxation in the tradition of Mirrlees (1971). Our...
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