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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

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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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Vacancy matching and labor market conditions

Stadin, Karolina - 2012

vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor … estimation, show economically significant effects of shocks to the number of vacancies on employment dynamics, while shocks to …

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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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Debt Maturity without Commitment

Niepelt, Dirk - 2008

I analyze how lack of commitment affects the maturity structure of sovereign debt. Governments balance benefits of default induced redistribution and costs due to income losses in the wake of a default. Their choice of short- versus long- term debt affects default and rollover decisions by...

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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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Understanding U.S. corporate tax losses

Altshuler, Rosanne; Auerbach, Alan J.; Cooper, Michael; … - 2011

Recent data on corporate tax losses presents a puzzle this paper attempts to explain: the ratio of losses to positive income was much higher around the recession of 2001 than in earlier recessions, even those of greater severity. Using a comprehensive sample of U.S. corporation tax returns for...

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Hoarding international reserves versus a Pigovian tax-cum-subsidy scheme: Reflections on the deleveraging crisis of 2008-9, and a cost benefit analysis

Aizenman, Joshua - 2010

In this paper we outline a Pigovian tax-cum-subsidy scheme that deals with concerns about the costs and efficacy of hoarding international reserves (IR) as a means of self-insurance against a deleveraging crisis. We overview the degree to which IR provided self-insurance to Emerging Markets...

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