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Social interactions and labor market outcomes in cities

Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

jobs because they mainly rely on their strong ties to obtain information about jobs. -- Weak ties ; labor market ; social …

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Peer effects and social networks in education

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni (contributor); … - 2008

This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to her Katz-Bonacich centrality measure. This...

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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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Oppositional identities and the labor market

Battu, Harminder (contributor); Mwale, MacDonald (contributor) - 2005

adverse labor market outcomes. -- ethnic minorities , identity ; social networks ; white's norm ; multiple equilibria …

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The Todaro paradox revisited

Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2005

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...

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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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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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