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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2018
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We extend the...
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Optimal taxation when the tax burden matters
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …
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Minimum wage: Redistributive or discriminatory policy?
Micheli, Martin - 2017
The standard model of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market suggests that a positive tax rate on minimum wage income is Pareto inefficient. However, most countries with minimum wage legislation exhibit a positive tax rate on minimum wage income. We solve this...
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Labour Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility
Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - 2010
Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...
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The role of within-occupation task changes in wage development
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin; … - 2022
We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over...
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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023
I show that workers update expectations about job search and salary growth when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn's announcement to build a large production plant in Racine County, Wisconsin. Exposure to positive news leads to an...
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes: Evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024
We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...
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Labour Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility
Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520832
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Why Are More Boys Born During War? - Evidence from Germany at Mid Century
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2009
In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...
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Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks
Braun, Sebastian; Kramer, Anica; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017
This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a...
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