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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure...

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Energy poverty indicators : conceptual issues part I: the ten-percent-rule and double median/mean indicators

Schuessler, Rudolf - 2014

Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment … push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …

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Measuring fuel poverty : general considerations and application to German household data

Heindl, Peter - 2013

Fuel poverty may become an increasingly severe problem in developed countries in cases when real prices for fossil … fuels increase at high rates or when real energy prices increase due to policies for greenhouse gas abatement. Fuel poverty … measurement consists of two largely independent parts, firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, the …

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Federation's alternative tax constitutions and risky education

Poutvaara, Panu - 1999

We analyze a two-period modell where risk-averse students divide their time between risky education, leisure, and work. The educated can migrate. Wagetax financed transfer to students acts as an insurance, and increases both investment in education and demand for leisure. We drive sufficient...

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Taxation and unemployment : an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2002

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Green tax reform and employment : the interaction of profit and factor taxes

Boeters, Stefan - 2001

The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on product markets and bargain over wages with unions on the labour market. In the setting,...

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Tax progressivity and the trade union's fallback-option

Boeters, Stefan - 2002

When we analyse the labour market consequences of labour tax reforms in a model of firm-union wage bargaining, minor changes in the formulation of the union's fallback option can have drastic effects. This paper compares two variants of the model in which either workers have no reemployment...

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Fiscal policy and growth with complementarities and constraints on government

Misch, Florian; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard - 2011

This paper considers the implications of complementarity in private production and constraints on government for optimal fiscal policy. Using an endogenous growth model with public finance, it derives three central results which modify findings in the literature under standard assumptions....

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Growth and welfare maximization in models of public finance and endogenous growth

Misch, Florian; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard - 2011

This paper evaluates the trade-off between growth and welfare maximization from two perspectives. Firstly, it synthesizes and extends endogenous growth models with public finance to compare growth and welfare maximizing tax rates. Secondly, it examines the distinct model outcomes in terms of...

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The value-added of sectoral disaggregation : implications on competitive consequences of climate change policies

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; Böhringer, Christoph; … - 2012

Global impact assessment of unilateral climate policies is commonly based on multi‐sector, multi‐region computable general equilibrium (CGE) models that are calibrated to consistent accounts of production, consumption, and bilateral trade flows. However, global economic databases such as...

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