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It is often argued that the tax on continued work should be removed by implementing actuarially fair schemes. However, these schemes cannot help fund the expected Social Security deficit. This paper proposes to give individuals only a fraction of the marginal actuarially fair incentives in case...
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incidence of wage cuts and to assess the relevance of a range of potential reasons for why they avoid cutting wages. Concerns …The rarity with which firms reduce nominal wages has been frequently observed, even in the face of considerable …
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gegenfinanziert werden. Bei Gegenfinanzierung über eine breit bemessene Konsumsteuer gehen das gesamtwirtschaftliche Arbeitsangebot in …
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' foreign capital stocks in 22 countries between 1994 and 2003. Estimating elasticities, we find that while domestic wages do …
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We study re-entry to the workforce of fully retired persons, so-called unretirement, and whether the decision to resume work depends primarily on social or economic reasons. Using Swedish register data for already retired individuals older than 55, we find unretirement to vary between 6 and 14...
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The US has legislated to abolish its social security earnings test. A priori it is not possible to predict the effect this will have on work incentives. Using data from the Family Expenditure Survey we show that the abolition of the earnings rule in the UK increased the number of hours worked by...
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In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for …-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases …
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monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much … compensating differentials with lagged wages, and for profitability (rent sharing). Employment expansion also has a positive effect … on wages, providing further evidence for upward sloping labour supply (as distinct from the effect of shocks in a …
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weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different … wage elasticities might be higher than previous research has found. This is mainly due to the effect of wages on the … respect to income are higher for nurses with children, while the positive elasticities with respect to wages are higher for …
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