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Employment Effects of Labour Taxation in an Efficiency Wage Model with Alternative Budget Constraints and Time Horizons

Goerke, Laszlo - 2000

In an efficiency wage economy with variable profits, a shift from payroll to employment taxes will reduce unemployment if the tax level is held constant at the initial wage. However, unemployment will rise if firms are constrained to zero profits in the long-run and if tax revenues are constant....

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The Long-Run Economic Consequences of Iodine Supplementation

Araújo, Daniel; Carrillo, Bladimir; Sampaio, Breno - 2021

We present evidence on the impacts of a large-scale iodine supplementation program in Tanzania on individuals' long-term economic outcomes. Exploiting the timing and location of the intervention, we document that in utero exposure to the program increased completed years of education and income...

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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models: Classroom Exposure Effects

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Olivero, Giulia; Patacchini, … - 2024

This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men — child penalties — are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across...

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Employment Effects of Labour Taxation in an Efficiency Wage Model with Alternative Budget Constraints and Time Horizons

Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In an efficiency wage economy with variable profits, a shift from payroll to employment taxes will reduce unemployment if the tax level is held constant at the initial wage. However, unem-ployment will rise if firms are constrained to zero profits in the long-run and if tax revenues are...

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Counteracting Unemployment in Crises: Non-Linear Effects of Short-Time Work Policy

Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018

Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...

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The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Campos, Nauro F.; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U- shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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Wage Determination in Russia: An Econometric Investigation

Schaffer, Mark E.; Luke, Peter J. - 2000

outliers and influential observations. A variety of diagnostic methods are employed to identify these influential observations … methods utilised proved incapable of identifying or accommodating the gross outlier(s) in the data, the more successful …

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On the sensitivity of return to schooling estimates to estimation methods, model specification, and influential outliers if identification is weak

Jaeger, David A.; Parys, Juliane - 2009

. We propose to use Cook's Distance in order to identify influential outliers having substantial influence on first …

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Robust estimation of linear fixed effects panel data models with an application to the exporter productivity premium

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses … this, the detection of outliers and their appropriate treatment is often dealt with in a rather sloppy manner. One reason … the presence of outliers. Our paper intents to improve on this situation by presenting a highly robust method for …

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On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers If Identification Is Weak

Jaeger, David A.; Parys, Juliane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

. We propose to use Cook's Distance in order to identify influential outliers having substantial influence on first …

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