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Labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...

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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

Europe. …

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Own-wage labor supply elasticities: Variation across time and estimation methods

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-31

both Western Europe and the USA, over a long period and from different empirical approaches. Then, our meta …

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Vertical and horizontal redistribution: The cases of Western and Eastern Europe

Bussolo, Maurizio; Krolage, Carla; Makovec, Mattia; … - 2019

European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that...

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Steady-state labor supply elasticities: A survey

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - 2013

supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological …, both in the US and in Europe. …

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The economic costs of the Coronavirus shutdown for selected European countries: A scenario calculation

Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Göttert, Marcell; … - 2020

, Spain, Switzerland and UK. The shutdown phase will lead to considerable production losses and large declines in GDP this …

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Social Protection as an Automatic Stabilizer

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …

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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011

Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...

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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011

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Ungleichheit unter der Lupe – neue politische Antworten auf ein bekanntes Thema

Niehues, Judith; Stockhausen, Maximilian; Peichl, Andreas; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 73 (2020) 02, pp. 03-26

Judith Niehues und Maximilian Stockhausen, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln, weisen darauf hin, dass in der Wahrnehmung der Bevölkerungsmehrheit die Ungleichheit in Einkommen und Vermögen seit Jahren steigt. Ein Abgleich mit den verfügbaren Daten zeige jedoch, dass die Daten weder ein...

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