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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
Dew-Becker, Ian L. - 2008
Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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The Economics of Work Schedules Under the New Hours and Employment Taxes
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2014
Hours, employment, and income taxes are economically distinct, and all three are either introduced or expanded by the Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014. The tax wedges push some workers to work more hours per week (for the weeks that they are on a payroll), and others to work less, with an...
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Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004
Ohanian, Lee E. - 2007
We document large differences in trend changes in hours worked across OECD countries over the period 1956-2004. We then assess the extent to which these changes are consistent with the intratemporal first order condition from the neoclassical growth model. We find large and trending deviations...
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Tax Base Variability and Procyclical Fiscal Policy
Talvi, Ernesto; Vegh, Carlos A. - 2021
Based on a sample of 56 countries, we find that while fiscal policy in the G-7 countries appears to be broadly consistent with Barro's tax smoothing proposition, in developing countries government spending and taxes are highly procyclical (i.e., government spending rises and taxes fall during...
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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity
Cette, Gilbert - 2016
On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...
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Why Do Americans Work so Much More than Europeans?
Prescott, Edward C. - 2011
Americans now work 50 percent more than do the Germans, French, and Italians. This was not the case in the early 1970s when the Western Europeans worked more than Americans. In this paper, I examine the role of taxes in accounting for the differences in labor supply across time and across...
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Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size : Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2021
Guided by a simple theory of task assignment and time allocation, we investigate the long run response to national differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in the market sector, increase the size of the shadow...
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Using the EITC to Help Poor Families : New Evidence and a Comparision with the Minimum Wage
Neumark, David; Wascher, William - 2022
This paper evaluates the effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC) on poor families. Exploiting state-level variation in EITCs, we find that the EITC helps families rise above poverty-level earnings. This occurs by inducing labor market entry in families that initially do not have an adult...
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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses : A Sufficient Statistics Approach
Kroft, Kory - 2015
Income Tax (NIT) at the bottom of the income distribution, in the presence of unemployment and wage responses to taxation … that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages. This formula nests a broad variety of structures of the labor market … unemployment and wage responses are not taken into account …
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Place Based Policies with Unemployment
Kline, Patrick - 2013
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …
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