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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Tonin, Mirco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271987
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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Tonin, Mirco - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013
higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611635
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642399
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A Minimum Wage Can Be Welfare-Improving and Employment-Enhancing
Boadway, Robin; Cuff, Katherine - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 1999
We examine whether minimum wages can fulfill a useful role as part of an optimal non-linear income tax scheme. In this setting, governments cannot observe household abilities, only their incomes. Redistributing according to income, the government is constrained by a set of incentive constraints....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572472
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Improving Employment Prospects in the Slovak Republic: Building on Past Reforms
Fuentes, Andrés - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low …-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for …. Measures to improve mobility of workers across regions, notably housing policy reform, would lower long unemployment durations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045686
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The effects of minimum wage on a labour market with high temporary employment
Kamińska, Agnieszka; Lewandowski, Piotr - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2015
We use propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences estimator to analyse the impact of minimum wage hikes on the Polish labour market in 2002-2013. We find an increase in wages and better working time standards among workers who retained their jobs, but also more separations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185801
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480477
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Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort
Zoutman, Floris; Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2014
This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. Monitored individuals receive a penalty, which increases if individuals earn a lower income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877903
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Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort
Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014
This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. We analyze the joint determination of the non-linear monitoring and tax schedules and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097076
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Money or Joy
Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Anne-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2005
associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207038