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combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …
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the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and … ; unemployment …
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This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …
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This paper investigates the effect of shifting taxes from labor income to consumption on labor supply and the distribution of income in Germany. We simulate stepwise increases in the value-added tax (VAT) rate, which are compensated by revenue-neutral reductions in income-related taxes. We...
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …
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Several recent papers have shown the relevance of collective models for the empirical investigation of household labor supply and consumption. Yet the estimation of collective models in the presence of non-linear budget sets and participation decisions remains a daunting task. This paper...
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