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reforms has been to create employment for disadvantaged groups on the domestic labor market. I evaluate a Swedish policy where …-skilled sectors. I conclude that the tax subsidy largely failed to improve employment opportunities among the target groups. An …
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reforms has been to create employment for disadvantaged groups on the labor market. I study Sweden, where a 50% tax deduction …
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establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
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establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
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We examine Australia's Mature Age Worker Tax offset (MAWTO), a targeted earned income tax credit of up to $500 to incentivize participation of older workers that existed from 2004-05 to 2014-15. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that MAWTO increased labor market participation...
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This study analyzes the labor market impact of state and local supplements to the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program. Using Current Population Survey data from 1984 to 2006, the study concludes the differential impact of the state and local government supplements of the EITC on the...
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paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …
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. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …
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. The stated motive of the reform was to boost employment; in particular to provide incentives for individuals to go from … results are sensitive with respect to how we define employment, which is especially true when we analyze different subgroups …
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. The stated motive of the reform was to boost employment; in particular to provide incentives for individuals to go from … results are sensitive with respect to how we define employment, which is especially true when we analyze different subgroups …
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