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Striking a Balance : Optimal Tax Policy with Labor Market Duality
Mbara, Gilbert - 2020
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model where employers may avoid making social security contributions by offering some workers "secondary contracts". When calibrated using aggregate tax revenue data, the model delivers estimates of secondary "off the books" employment that are...
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
Jarosch, Gregor - 2019
40 percent of the observed decline in the labor share from 1997 to 2015. Mergers decrease competition for workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863784
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Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2011
Building a model with three imperfect markets – goods, labor and credit – representing a product's life-cycle, we find that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The calibrated model leads to a significant reduction in...
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - In: Journal of monetary economics 52 (2005) 7, pp. 1297-1330
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Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization
Dostie, Benoit; Sahn, David E. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three years, 1994 to 1996. Our motivation is to gain insight into the functioning of the labor market and how workers are coping during this period of economic liberalization and...
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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
Burgess, Simon M. - 2019
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Dolado, Juan Jose; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 1986–2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. Thispaper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED)from Hungary containing 1.35mln...
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