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Spillover effects of minimum wagesin a two-sector search model
Christoph Moser, Christoph; Stähler, Nikolai - Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum <Frankfurt, Main> - 2009
Labor market studies on the effects of minimum wages are typically confinedto the sector or worker group directly affected. We present a two-sector searchmodel in which one sector is more productive than the other one and thus,pays higher wages. In such a framework, setting a minimum wage in...
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CORPORATE INCOME TAXATION OFMULTINATIONALS AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Eichner Thomas; Runkel Marco - CESifo GmbH <München> - 2006
Within a two-country model with involuntary unemployment, this paper investigatescorporate income taxation under … tax policy causesa fiscal externality which goes back to unemployment. This unemployment externality is thelowest when the … welfare and reduces unemployment. The welfare increase is the strongest under apure sales formula. …
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Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences : The Case of Italy
Caponi, Vincenzo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North …
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The Turkish Wage Curve:Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008.When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find anunemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for … finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantlymore responsive to local unemployment rates than their male …
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …
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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria : How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment
Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity?Evidence from U.S. States
Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...
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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
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor...
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment …
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Sources of Earnings Instability : Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market
Flabbi, Luca; Leonardi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market tostudy the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. Tostudy the evolution...
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