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Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that...
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
insome respects investment subsidies can be cost effective.... …
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies:An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledgeand Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, inaddition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, unionwage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship...<BR>
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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours : Lessons from the French Experiment
Cahuc, Pierre - 2011
In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article shows that this reform has had no significant impact on...
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The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2010
We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We identify this direct shifting through cross-company variation in tax liabilities, conditional on...
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Business Taxation and Wages : Evidence from Individual Panel Data
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2012
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...
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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity : Reply
Adda, Jerome - 2012
This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine...
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The Affordable Care Act and the Growth of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Even, William E. - 2015
This study tests whether the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased involuntary part-time (IPT) employment. Using data from the Current Population Survey between 1994 and 2014, we find that IPT employment in 2014 was higher than predicted based on economic conditions and...
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Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households
Di, Wenhua - 2016
delinquency. Specifically, we utilize detailed information on all household liabilities, delinquencies, and credit scores from the … Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax, a quarterly longitudinal 5% random sample of all individuals … in the US with a social security number and a credit report. Identification of the causal effect of the program is …
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