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Wage rigidity or fiscal redistribution? The unemployment bias of time consistent redistributive policies
Lehmann, Etienne - 2006
with less perverse effect on unemployment. Time inconsistency is more likely due to lack of credibility than to the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267845
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MIMIC Models, Cointegration and Error Correction: An Application to the French Shadow Economy
Buehn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762169
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Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …
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Anatomy of policy complementarities
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273118
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Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies
Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247692
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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763705
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An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2024
We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the...
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Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
Lee, David S.; Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J.; … - 2019
government budget to study the deadweight loss of two unemployment insurance policies. Experimental and quasi …
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Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2014
point. Splitting the sample by income inequality suggests that increased inequality reduces the ability to emigrate. The … channeled more productively into education and also lead to a fall in inequality which would reduce emigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352310
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Shadow Economies around the World : What Do We Know?
Schneider, Friedrich G.; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004
Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...
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