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Why is the public sector more labor-intensive? : A distortionary tax argument

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Wagener, Andreas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production … firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production precludes production efficiency. It reduces welfare when labor supply is … constant. With an elastic labor supply, a wage tax advantage of the public sector may improve welfare if it allows for a higher …

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Candidate quality

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Takalo, Tuomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Earnings-related severance pay

Goerke, Laszlo - 2006

In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However, severance payments are usually related to wages. It is shown that earnings-related, mandated severance pay will have ambiguous employment effects if effort can be varied...

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Corporate and personal income tax declarations

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2006

Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax evasion can be observed. The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that a manager's decision...

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An incentive theory of matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

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Is there scope for gains from revenue-neutral labor tax reforms with flexible outsourcing?

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2009

We study the effects of revenue-neutral labor tax reforms in an imperfectly competitive domestic labor market under … negotiated wage rate, increase domestic labor demand and decrease international outsourcing. In the presence of wage tax … exemption, a lower payroll tax and a higher wage tax will increase domestic labor demand and decrease international outsourcing …

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They are even larger! : more (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …

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Pareto-improving bequest taxation

Grossmann, Volker (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of...

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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of...

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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...

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