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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …
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Subjektive und objektive Lebenslagen von Arbeitslosen
Faik, Jürgen; Becker, Jens - 2009
Das Diskussionspapier thematisiert die objektive und subjektive Lebenslage von Arbeitslosen in Deutschland im Vergleich zur Gesamtbevölkerung. Die Ergebnisse indizieren eine deutlich schlechtere materielle, d. h. objektive Lebenslage der Arbeitslosen. Dies reflektiert sich in den auf...
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Reference-Dependent Effects of Unemployment on Mental Well-Being
Grunow, Martina - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2014
Several contributions to the literature have shown that the perception of the individual employment status depends on the surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status regarding changes in mental...
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Reference-Dependent Effects of Unemployment on Mental Well-Being
Grunow, Martina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that...
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Dual Labor Markets: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Saint-Paul, Gilles - The MIT Press
The labor market consists of two tiers. Workers in the upper tier enjoy high wages, good benefits, and employment security, and they are often unionized. Workers in the lower tier experience low wages, high turnover, job insecurity, and little chance of promotion. Until now, dual labor market...
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Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach
Jales, Hugo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage … inequality, the size of the informal sector and on labor tax revenues. I show that under reasonable assumptions, cross … strongly affects wage inequality, reducing up to 20% the standard deviation of log-wages, and reduces revenues from labor taxes …
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Labour Market Matters - November 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … and reduce wage inequality, the policy has the unintended effect of causing labor tax revenues to fall as a result of … growth in American wage inequality in recent decades. In a paper entitled “The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union …
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997
qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …
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