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The Political Cost of Lockdown'S Enforcement

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2021

We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens … information. Lock-downs entail a political cost that helps explain why democracies may adopt epidemiologically suboptimal policies …

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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina - 2017

Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to...

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Housing and the Labor Market : Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment

Rupert, Peter - 2015

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build...

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International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs : Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes

Friebel, Guido - 2018

Irregular migrants from Africa and the Middle East flow into Europe along land and sea routes under the control of human smugglers. The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the opening of the Central Mediterranean Route for irregular border - crossing between Libya and Italy. This...

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Why is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education

Hemelt, Steven W. - 2018

a modest reduction in cost per student, but only for undergraduate instruction. Recent policy efforts to promote …

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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression Under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage …

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The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs

Parsons, Donald O. - 2010

Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that …) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …

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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market : First Results from the Euro Experiment

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone offers an unprecedented experiment for this exercise: since 1999, no national monetary policies have been implemented that could account for volatility differences across...

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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Lozano, Fernando - 2010

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S., or moves the point of...

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Severance Packages

Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2011

voluntary severance packages, which are less costly than the full statutory firing cost. We formalize those mechanisms within an …

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