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Trade and location with land as a productive factor

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We set up a simple monopolistic competition model … labor, a number of tenets of the new trade and geography literature no longer hold. We also show that in order to explain …

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On pitchforks and tomahawks

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper tier preferences. This small generalization suffices to change these stark implications. For a wide...

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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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Towards a unifying approach of the 'new economic geography'

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006

Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...

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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009

Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...

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A simple theory of industry location and residence choice

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of … of production which seeks to obtain the highest possible economic return. Our theory comprehends applications to …

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts and collective wage determination

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2007

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In the present paper the wage and employment consequences of...

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A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2007

Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages and increase employment. This raises the question as...

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Labor market effects of trade and FDI : recent advances and research gaps

Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - 2010

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing …-up the value added chain and the turn to a task-based approach, (2) firm heterogeneity and labor markets, (3) complex … offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing …

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