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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …
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Evaluating Labor Market Reforms : A General Equilibrium Approach
Galdon-Sanchez, José Enrique; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2004
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how common such contracts have become after deregulation, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273739
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The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279291
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general equilibrium model that accounts for the main channels of transmission of immigration...
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008
Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268928
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How tax progression affects effort and employment
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2007
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labour taxation towards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268228
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The effects of labour tax progression under nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2008
This paper studies in the presence of flexible outsourcing the effects of outsourcing costs, productivity of outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages and the impacts of labour tax progression on domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268838
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Are two tax rates better than one?
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim - 2009
Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
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Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment
Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis; van der Linden, Bruno - 2008
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous dimensions: their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277015
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Optimal redistributive taxation with both extensive and intensive responses
Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; van der Linden, Bruno - 2010
This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their skill and disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and work effort can differ with...
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