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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007
Askenazy, Philippe - 2008
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
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Short-time work benefits revisited: Some lessons from the Great Recession
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011
The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...
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Back to the future: Decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work incentives, it is also crucial to evaluate behavioural responses and the...
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Equilibrium simulation with microeconometric models: A new procedure with an application to income support policies
Colombino, Ugo - 2012
-time jobs). The most common use of these models is the simulation of tax-transfer reforms. The simulation is usually interpreted … simulation procedure, however, typically keeps fixed the estimated alternative-specific constants. In this note we argue that …-specific constants leads to the development of a simulation procedure consistent with the comparative statics interpretation. The …
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Testing for nonparametric identification of causal effects in the presence of a quasi-instrument
DeLuna, Xavier; Johansson, Per - 2012
power. We perform a simulation study and apply the results to a case study where the interest lies in evaluating the effect …
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Simulating the economic impacts of living wage mandates using new public and administrative data: Evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - 2012
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...
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On the multivariate analysis of the Lisbon process
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268253
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Instability of the Eurozone? On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms
Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2007
This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269233
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Welfare reform in European countries: a microsimulation analysis
Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2005
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal tax rates on earnings. The first reform...
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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...
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