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Smooth Income Tax Schedules : Derivation and Consequences
Estévez Schwarz, Diana - 2018
Existing tax schedules are often overly complex and characterized by discontinuities in the marginal tax burden. In this paper we propose a class of progressive smooth functions to replace personal income tax schedules. These functions depend only on three meaningful parameters, and avoid the...
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The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
Cunha, Flavio - 2008
This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) framework for discrete duration data that jointly models durations and outcomes associated with...
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A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities
Bradley, Jake - 2018
We set up a model with on-the-job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for which workers occasionally apply. The model nests the standard job ladder and stock-flow models as special cases while remaining analytically tractable and easy to estimate from standard panel data sets....
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Stochastic Complementarity
Manzini, Paola - 2018
The Hicksian definition of complementarity and substitutability may not apply in contexts in which agents are not utility maximisers or where price or income variations, whether implicit or explicit, are not available. We look for tools to identify complementarity and substitutability satisfying...
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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance
Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to...
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The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets Under Frictional Financial Markets
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2010
Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke andGertler 1989). We follow … this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of labor market outcomes to productivity shocks … are a good candidate to solve the volatility puzzle and rejoin Pissarides (2009) in arguing that hiring costs must be …
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
Abbritti, Mirko - 2012
volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …
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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
Gartner, Hermann - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …
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Government Deficit Shocks and Okun's Coefficient Volatility : New Insights on the Austerity Versus Growth Debate
Pham, Binh Thai - 2019
This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations Over the Life-Cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
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