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Shifting the Beveridge Curve : What Affects Labor Market Matching?
Bova, Elva - 2016
This paper explores conditions and policies that could affect the matching between labor demand and supply. We identify shifts in the Beveridge curves for 12 OECD countries between 2000Q1 and 2013Q4 using three complementary methodologies and analyze the short-run determinants of these shifts by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977727
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being
Abul Naga, Ramses H. - 2009
According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a household is in catastrophe if its health out-of-pocket budget share exceeds a critical threshold. We develop a conceptual framework for addressing three questions in relation to this methodology, namely: 1. Can a budget share be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159969
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Retirement Savings and Tax Expenditure Estimates
Xanthopoulos, Judy; Schmitt, Mary M. - 2011
The paper examines the manner in which federal tax expenditure estimates are prepared by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis (OTA). The paper finds that the current cash flow method does not measure the actual benefits of...
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Household Income Volatility and Tax Policy : Helping More and Hurting Less, Testimony Before the U.S. Joint Economic Committee
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, income volatility, especially when it involves income declines, imposes significant hardships on American families. It heightens stress about finances and may increase household living expenses. These hardships are most pronounced for middle-and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195419
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Reforming the labor market and improving competitiveness: An analysis for Spain using FiMod
Schwarzmüller, Tim; Stähler, Nikolai - 2011
This paper uses an extended version of 'FiMod - A DSGE Model for Fiscal Policy Simulations' (Stähler and Thomas, 2011) with endogenous job destruction decisions by private firms to analyze the effects of several currently discussed labor market reforms on the Spanish economy. The main focus is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307705
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Reforming the labor market and improving competitiveness : an analysis for Spain using FiMod
Schwarzmüller, Tim; Stähler, Nikolai - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 4, pp. 437-471
This paper uses an extended version of “FiMod—A DSGE Model for Fiscal Policy Simulations” (Stähler and Thomas Econ Model 29:239–261, 2012) with endogenous job destruction decisions by private firms to analyze the effects of several currently discussed labor market reforms on the Spanish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223397
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Reforming the labor market and improving competitiveness : an analysis for Spain using FiMod
Schwarzmüller, Tim; Stähler, Nikolai - 2011
This paper uses an extended version of “FiMod – A DSGE Model for Fiscal Policy Simulations” (Stähler and Thomas, 2011) with endogenous job destruction decisions by private firms to analyze the effects of several currently discussed labor market reforms on the Spanish economy. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389750
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Reforming the Labor Market and Improving Competitiveness : An Analysis for Spain Using Fimod
Schwarzmüller, Tim - 2016
This paper uses an extended version of 'FiMod - A DSGE Model for Fiscal Policy Simulations' (Stähler and Thomas, 2011) with endogenous job destruction decisions by private firms to analyze the effects of several currently discussed labor market reforms on the Spanish economy. The main focus is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991021
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Labour Market Responses of Survival Pensioners : Estimating a Labour Supply Model and Predicting the Effect of the Reform
Decoster, André - 2009
protection' and the microsimulation model MIMOSIS to assess the labour supply effects of a reform of the rules for cumulating … choice labour supply model for several sub groups. Subsequently we model the proposed reform in the tax and benefit rules and … we predict the change in desired labour supply of the targeted group. The reform has a significant positive effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721124