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Informal unemployment and education
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-36
This paper develops a four-sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities … incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low-educated worker. However, unemployment also increases …
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Optimal redistributive taxation in a search equilibrium model
Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis - In: The review of economic studies 73 (2006) 3, pp. 743-767
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The ability gradient in tax responsiveness
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - In: Journal of public economics plus 2 (2021), pp. 1-19
We study the role of cognitive ability for individuals’ tax responsiveness using linked administrative tax and military enlistment registers. Our main finding is that individuals in the top decile of the ability distribution react twice as strong to a large and salient kink point in the...
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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation : which policy is more effective to reduce duality?
Osuna, Victoria - 2015
matching type by García-Pérez and Osuna (Dual labour markets and the tenure distribution: Reducing severance pay or introducing …
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Social status, preferences for redistribution and optimal taxation : a survey
Gallice, Andrea - 2018
The author reviews recent studies that investigate how social status concerns influence individual preferences for redistribution and impact the design of optimal tax policies. He focuses on two aspects: the relevant dimension over which relative concerns are defined and the different...
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Rising skill premium and the dynamics of optimal capital and labor taxation
Tsai, Yi-Chan; Yang, C. C.; Yu, Hsin-Jung - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1061-1099
With capital‐skill complementarity, the secular decline in the price of capital equipment due to equipment‐specific technological progress (ESTP) keeps pushing up the demand for skilled relative to unskilled labor and raising the skill premium. This paper quantitatively characterizes the...
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Beveridgean unemployment gap
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - In: Journal of public economics plus 2 (2021), pp. 1-17
This paper develops a sufficient-statistic formula for the unemployment gap-the difference between the actual … unemployment rate and the efficient unemployment rate. While lowering unemployment puts more people into work, it forces firms to … post more vacancies and to devote more resources to recruiting. This unemployment-vacancy tradeoff, governed by the …
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The social stigma of unemployment : consequences of stigma consciousness on job search attitudes, behaviour and success
Krug, Gerhard; Drasch, Katrin; Jungbauer-Gans, Monika - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 11, pp. 1-27
unemployment is one explanation. In this paper, we focus on the unemployed’s expectations of being stigmatized (stigma …
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Capital tax competition and search unemployment
Satō, Yasuhiro - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 88 (2009) 4, pp. 749-764
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Tax efficiency in a model of endogenous markups
Durceylan, Esra - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 3/4, pp. 401-418
Efficiency comparison of ad valorem and unit taxes has been traditionally based on consumer welfare. However, if the tax instrument also affects the distribution of firms over their productivities, the policy maker may be concerned about the implications on aggregate productivity as well. This...
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