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Did Latvia's public works program mitigate the impact of the 2008 - 2010 crisis?
Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287641
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The Effects of EU-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers
Muraközy, Balázs; Telegdy, Álmos - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of non-repayable enterprise grants financed from the European Union's Structural and Cohesion Funds on firm outcomes in Hungary using firm- and worker-level information on all rejected and successful grant applications between 2004-2014. In our model, after...
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Downward Revision of Investment Decisions after Corporate Tax Hikes
Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023
This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their...
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Optimal redistributive taxation and provision of public input goods in an economy with outsourcing and unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2009
This paper concerns optimal redistributive income taxation and provision of a public input good in a two-type model with a minimum wage policy implemented for the low-ability type, where firms may outsource part of the production process abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for...
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Outsourcing, public input provision and policy cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2009
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269563
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497012
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper concerns optimal redistributive income taxation and provision of a public input good in a two-type model with a minimum wage policy implemented for the low-ability type, where firms may outsource part of the production process abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999164
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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms
Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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The economics of workaholism: we should not have worked on this paper
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Slemrod, Joel - 2005
A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We argue that for some people addictive behavior may apply to a much more central aspect of economic life: working. Workaholism is subject to the same concerns about the individual as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267492
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The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Slemrod, Joel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We argue that for some people addictive behavior may apply to a much more central aspect of economic life: working. Workaholism is subject to the same concerns about the individual as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566846