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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry
Scheuer, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
indirectly achieve redistribution between entrepreneurs and workers. As a result, constrained Pareto optimal policies can involve … properties disappear when a differential tax treatment of profits and labor income is possible. In this case, redistribution is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785586
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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins
Bovenberg, A. Lans; Jacobs, Bas - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an … verify all investments in human capital, education policy offsets some but not all tax-induced distortions on learning. Non …-pecuniary educational costs (benefits) may increase (decrease) subsidies on education, especially if they are complementary to work effort. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136992
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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins
Bovenberg, A. Lans; Jacobs, Bas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an … verify all investments in human capital, education policy offsets some but not all tax-induced distortions on learning. Non …-pecuniary educational costs (benefits) may increase (decrease) subsidies on education, especially if they are complementary to work effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257600
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Sustaining Korea's Convergence to the Highest-Income Countries
Jones, Randall S.; Urasawa, Satoshi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
young people, improved vocational education at the secondary and tertiary levels would help overcome the labour mismatch … problem and the overemphasis on tertiary education. Enhancing educational quality at all levels would promote productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276834
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Corporate Defense Insights : Dispatches from the Front Line
Lyons, Sean - 2016
During a period of increasing turbulence and uncertainty in the corporate world, this timely paper contains the complete body of work addressed in the quot;Corporate Defense Insights: Dispatches from the Front Linequot; Qamp;A series (individually published at the RiskCenter throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706947
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Risk Management's Role in Corporate Defense
Lyons, Sean - 2016
If we consider corporate defense as representing an organization's program of self-defense, we are referring to the structures, measures, mechanisms and processes aimed at defending the interests of all of its stakeholders (including its people). Managing corporate defense is therefore an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746979
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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire: Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News
Schneider, Martin; Ilut, Cosmin; Kehrig, Matthias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper studies the distribution of employment growth when firms adjust asymmetrically to dispersed but correlated signals. If hiring decisions respond more to bad news than to good news, both aggregate conditional volatility ("macro-volatility") and the cross sectional dispersion of...
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Favoritism Under Social Pressure
Garicano, Luis; Palacios, Ignacio; Prendergast, Canice - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084939
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Structure, Behavior, and Market Power in an Evolutionary Labor Market with Adaptive Search
Tesfatsion, Leigh S. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2001
This study undertakes a systematic experimental investigation of the relationship between market power and labor market structure (concentration and capacity conditions) when workers and employers preferentially match based on past worksite experiences. For each tested market structure, workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004993635