Similar Search Results

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,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578420

Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment

Eggert, Wolfgang (contributor); Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001829804

Outsourcing and labor taxation in dual labor markets

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2008

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719633

Value-added tax versus social security contributions

Goerke, Laszlo - 1999

In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by efficiency wages, it is shown that a balanced-budget shift...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313955