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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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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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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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Hooliganism and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?

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

Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an increase in discriminative policing, provided by...

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Rent taxation in a small open economy : the effect on transitional generations

Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor); … - 2007

We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that rent taxation benefits current young and future generations, while we show that it also benefits...

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The expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...

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Should old-age benefits be earnings-tested?

Määttänen, Niku (contributor); … - 2007

model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals …

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