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The Wedge
Goerke, Laszlo - 1999
It is often argued that the quantity which is traded on the market is independent of the side of the market which is taxed. However, this assertion need not hold, especially in imperfectly competitive markets like that for labour. Taking an efficiency wage economy as an example, it is shown that...
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Business taxation and wages: Evidence from individual panel data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 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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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...
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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU
Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...
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Automatic stabilizers, economic crisis and income distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries
Callan, Tim; Smeeding, Tim; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008
provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK). …
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Non-cash benefits and the distribution of economic welfare
Callan, Tim; Keane, Claire - 2009
associated with the greater use of health and education services. Our results, for Ireland in the year 2000, show that it is …
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The economic crisis, public sector pay, and the income distribution
Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Walsh, John R. - 2010
pay in the private sector? This paper investigates these issues using data and a tax-benefit simulation for Ireland, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277128
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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher … education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the … we utilize a dynamic microsimulation model developed for Ireland to simulate the impact of both an income contingent loan …
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