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(Lack of) Pension Knowledge
Barrett, Alan - 2013
the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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Measuring Knowledge
Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022
early childhood intervention program that measures knowledge of narrowly defined skills on essentially equivalent subsets of … detailed knowledge measures. We reject the hypothesis of aggregate scale invariance and call into question the uncritical use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083722
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Optimal Fiscal Devaluation
Langot, François - 2012
We study fiscal devaluation in a small-open economy with labor market search frictions. Our analysis shows the key role of both dimensions in shaping the optimal tax scheme. By reducing labor market distortions, the tax reform is welfare-improving. Yet, as it makes imports more expensive, fiscal...
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The Tax System Incidence on Unemployment : A Country-Specific Analysis for the OECD Economies
García Martínez, José Ramón - 2010
This paper provides a detailed analysis on the incidence of the tax structure on the labor market. To do so it goes beyond the traditional examination of the quot;levelquot; effect of the fiscal wedge and considers a quot;compositionquot; effect defined as a payroll tax bias (PTB): the...
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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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Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge help explain the European advantage. We build a model of … technological progress in a pre-industrial economy that emphasizes the person-to-person transmission of tacit knowledge. The young … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans …
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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams : The Role of Social Ties
De Paola, Maria - 2016
the exam, suggesting that social ties are relevant both for solving free-riding problems and for inducing knowledge …
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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently : The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily than Qualified Labour
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2007
Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and non-qualified labour it is shown to be efficient to supplement a consumption tax with positive incentives for education. If the return from education is isoelastic and if the choice is between (i) subsidizing the...
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