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discrimination against immigrants, the average fiscal impact of immigration is negative, but it becomes positive if discrimination … results indicate that wage discrimination against immigrants could significantly affect our estimates of the fiscal impact of … literature has found fiscal impacts that are close to zero. However, these studies have ignored the possibility that immigrants …
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Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …
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Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on resident wages & labor supply. We …
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Calculating the net fiscal effects of immigration not just for a fiscal year but over the lifespan of immigrant cohorts accentuates the assets and deficits in migration and integration policies and their long-term potential. The less national policies concentrate on a labor migrant selection...
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Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
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labor market to compare unemployment insurance (UI) expansions and payroll subsidies. In isolation, payroll subsidies that …
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generates a negative effect on wages and an increase in the unemployment rate--and skilled workers, who benefit from higher … wages and lower unemployment. These changes in the labor market affect the government's revenue, resulting, in the long term …
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between employed skilled and unskilled labour. However, unskilled unemployment and labour income inequality within the group … workers. However, unemployment for skilled workers rises and skilled wages and labour income fall in the short-run. We finally …
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Men, especially those that are young and less educated, typically bear the brunt of recessions because of the stronger cyclicality of their employment and wages relative to women’s. We study the extent to which fiscal policy may offset or worsen these asymmetric effects across gender. Using...
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vacancies and a hiring subsidy. This paper finds that the effects of job creation subsides on unemployment differ between models … with and without endogenous job separation. While a positive job creation subsidy shock lowers unemployment in a model … without endogenous job separation, it increases unemployment in a model with endogenous job separation. We also find that …
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