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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets Under Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2009

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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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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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market : Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?

Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - 2021

We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, the government, which does not observe the...

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Career Progression and Formal Versus On-the-Job Training

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...

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Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics

Bijwaard, Govert - 2009

In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are interrelated. We estimate a multi-state multiple spell competing risks model with four states: employed, unemployed receiving benefits, out-of-the-labour market (no benefits) and...

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Uncertainty, Redistribution, and the Labor Market

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2013

shows that small to medium-sized increases in uncertainty or risk aversion are enough to recommend an expansion of the …

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Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk

Krebs, Tom - 2019

This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we … develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and … (human capital) risk increases social welfare if the government adjusts the tax-and-transfer system optimally. Finally, we …

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Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation : Labor Market Adjustments and Macroeconomic Performance

Batyra, Anna - 2010

We use a calibrated general equilibrium model with heterogeneous labor and search to evaluate the quantitative effects of various labor tax cut scenarios. The focus is on skill heterogeneity combined with downward wage rigidities at the low end of the skill ladder. Workers can take jobs for...

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Taxation and Redistribution of Residual Income Inequality

Golosov, Mikhail - 2012

unemployment benefit serves the purpose of lowering the search risk faced by workers. The increasing and regressive labor tax …

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Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets

Lee, David S. - 2010

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market. We show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment...

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