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We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage, and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labor increases...
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We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226116
Wir untersuchen das Ausscheiden von Vorstandsmitgliedern, insbesondere hinsichtlich verschiedener Arten von weiteren Vorstands- und Aufsichtsratsmandaten der Aufsichtsratsmitglieder. Es werden alle Vorstandsmitglieder der größten deutschen Aktiengesellschaften im Zeitraum 1996 bis 2008...
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Seit Jahren wird in der Politik bei einem Lehrstellenmangel die Einführung einer Ausbildungsplatzabgabe diskutiert. Welche ökonomischen Argumente sprechen für und welche gegen eine Ausbildungsplatzumlage? Wie ist der jüngste Parteitagsbeschluss der SPD zur Einführung einer...
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Der Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2006 wurde an Edmund S. Phelps für seine „Analyse von intertemporalen Zielkonflikten in der makroökonomischen Politik“ vergeben. Wie beeinflussten seine Beiträge die konkreten Politikentscheidungen und das Design politischer Institutionen?...
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Many environmental-policy problems are characterized by complexity and uncertainty. Government’s choice concerning these policies commonly relies on information provided by a bureaucracy. Environmental bureaucrats often have a political motivation of their own, so they might be tempted to...
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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a public smoking ban in bars. We construct a model that captures crucial features of bar life: competing bars, social interaction, and heterogenous preferences for a smoking ban. Smokers and non-smokers simultaneously choose a bar given their...
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CWe investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of lowwage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...
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We analyze the welfare and employment effects of different wage bargaining regimes. Within the large firm search model, we show that collective bargaining affects employment via two channels. Collective bargaining exerts opposing effects on job creation and wage setting. Firms have a stronger...
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