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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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Optimal immigration policy : permanent, guest-worker, or Mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2007

Host countries have implemented permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs in recent decades, while the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV of the GATS is one of the issues being negotiated at the Doha Round of the WTO. Though decisions on what programs to adopt have...

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Brain drain and its determinants : a major issue for small states

Beine, Michel (contributor); … - 2008

skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger reactions to standard push factors. We also observe that the correlation between …

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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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Optimal immigration policy : permanent, guest worker, or mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2007

Immigration continues to be on the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A number of reforms of permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs are being considered, and the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV (GATS) is being negotiated at the Doha...

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Trade and migration with renewable natural resources : out-of-steady-state dynamics

López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010

's likelihood rises with the relative commodity price and labor inflow; iii) a labor inflow under internal equilibrium results in a … higher steady-state capital-labor ratio and manufacturing output, and unchanged NR and commodity output; iv) import and … labor outflow (openness by the North), improved regulation, technical change and a production tax. -- Renewable natural …

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Small state regional cooperation, South-South and South-North migration, and international trade

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010

This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...

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Employment effects of labour taxation in an efficiency wage model with alternative budget constraints and time horizons

Goerke, Laszlo - 2000

In an efficiency wage economy with variable profits, a shift from payroll to employment taxes will reduce unemployment if the tax level is held constant at the initial wage. However, unemployment will rise if firms are constrained to zero profits in the long-run and if tax revenues are constant....

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