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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries

Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004

depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …

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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

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Layoff Tax and the Employment of the Elderly

Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...

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EU employment dynamics: The pandemic years and beyond

Jestl, Stefan; Stehrer, Robert - 2021

difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …

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Euro-productivity and euro-jobs since the 1960s: which institutions really mattered?

Lindert, Peter; Allard, Gayle - 2006

's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …

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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+

Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

that unemployment, being a homemaker, self-employed, living single, and having a child living close, are associated with an …

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The McKenna rule and UK World War I finance

Nason, James M.; Vahey, Shaun P. - 2007

The United Kingdom employed the McKenna rule to conduct fiscal policy during World War I (WWI) and the interwar period. Named for Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1915–16), the McKenna rule committed the United Kingdom to a path of debt retirement, which we show was...

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Taxpayer Responses to Competitive Tax Policies and Tax Policy Responses to Competitive Taxpayers : Recent Evidence

Altshuler, Rosanne; Grubert, Harry - 2004

We use information from the tax returns of U.S. multinational corporations to address three questions related to tax competition. First, does tax competition or company tax planning behavior better explain recent decreases in the local effective tax rates faced by U.S. multinationals investing...

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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden

Forslund, Anders - 2009

on as a major means of raising employment and participation in the long run. …

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The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2008

In this paper, I first summarize how the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) operates and describe the characteristics of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its effects on labor supply. Next, I discuss a few policy concerns...

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