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On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage:New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if itis implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issuein a framework where search frictions on the labor market generate unemployment. Workersdiffer in productivity...
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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market:Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. Theindividuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneousproductivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, thegovernment, which does not observe the...
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National Minimum Wage - Low Pay Commission Report 2011
Great Britain / Low Pay Commission
The national minimum wage is an important cornerstone of Government strategy aimed at providing employees with decent minimum standards and fairness in the workplace. It applies to nearly all workers and sets hourly rates below which pay must not be allowed to fall. It helps business by ensuring...
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Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs andthe Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment
Immervoll, Herwig - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
International comparisons of minimum-wage levels have largely focused on the gross valueof minimum wages, ignoring the effects of taxation on both labour costs and the net incomeof employees. This paper presents estimates of the tax burdens facing minimum-wageworkers. These are used as a basis...
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree oftax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360617
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision ofPublic Input Goods in an Economy withOutsourcing and Unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
abroad, and where outsourcing issubstitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount ofresources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …
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LOW INCOME, FINANCIAL RESTRICTIONS, AND COVERAGE IN THE SWISS SECOND AND THIRD PILLARS
Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen> - 2003
In this paper, the extent and determinants of coverage in the Swiss occupationalpension scheme (second pillar) and private savings scheme (third pillar) are analysed withdata from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Estimates for coverage in the second pillar (whichis income-dependent) has, in total,...
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Garantierte Mindestlöhne statt prekärer Beschäftigung
Weinkopf, Claudia - 2004
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Arbeitsplätze um jeden Preis? - Argumente und Fakten zu Niedrig-, Kombi- und Mindestlöhnen
Weinkopf, Claudia - 2004
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Der gesetzliche Mindestlohn in Großbritannien
Brown, William - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Büro <London> - 2007
Inwieweit wirkt sich der gesetzliche Mindestlohn in Großbritannien in Zeitensteigender Arbeitsmigration stabilisierend … einheimischenGeringverdienern konkurrieren, legen Plausibilitätsgründe nahe, dassder Mindestlohn eine wichtige Rolle bei der Sicherung der Löhne …
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