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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 …

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Optimal Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits

Taslimi, Mohammad - 2003

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

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Global Inflation

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Mojon, Benoît - 2008

This paper shows that in ation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, the inflation rates of 22 OECD countries have a common factor that alone accounts for nearly 70 percent of their variance. This large variance share that is associated with Global Inflation is not...

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Taxes and market hours: The role of gender and skill

Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fang, Lei; Ngai, Rachel - 2017

Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across...

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An economical approach to estimate a benchmark capital stock: An optimal consistency method

Albala-Bertrand, Jose Miguel - 2003

There are alternative methods of estimating capital stock for a benchmark year. However, these methods are costly and time-consuming, requiring the gathering of much basic information as well as the use of some convenient assumptions and guesses. In addition, a way is needed of checking whether...

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Does Unemployment Hysteresis Equal Employment Hysteresis?

Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2006

unemployment rates are studied. Applying a range of unit-root tests to monthly data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland …, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for employment rates that contrast those based on unemployment rates. In … particular, rather than the mixed evidence for hysteresis found using unemployment rates, employment rates result in unequivocal …

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Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries

Scarpetta, Stefano - 1998

differences across countries. In the major European countries, unemployment has increased dramatically over the past two decades …

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The macroeconomics of the labor market: three fundamental views

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

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Multidimensional income taxation and electoral competition : an equilibrium analysis

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Ok, Efe - 2004

One of the fundamental problems of the positive theory of income taxation is explaining why the statutory income tax schedules in all industrialized democracies are marginal-rate progressive. While it is commonly believed that this is but a simple consequence of the fact that the number of...

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Follow the leader? Evidence on European and US tax competition

Altshuler, Rosanne; Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2003

This paper contributes to the small empirical literature that attempts to estimate tax reaction functions of national governments competing with other national governments. After presenting a simple theoretical model, we estimate reaction functions for European countries for a pure Nash model...

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