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cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm's need to pay workers as risk … state can simultaneously cause an increase in unemployment and exports. …
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How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...
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How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321005
of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own … labour supply incurs positive marginal disutility, we allow negative welfare effects of unemployment. We also compare … income ; redistribution ; basic income ; unemployment benefits ; happiness ; well-being …
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This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. These migrants were on average poorer than the West German population, but unlike most international...
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The effect of generous welfare benefits on unemployment is highly contested. The dominant perspective contends that … matches. Despite many studies of welfare benefits and unemployment, the literature has neglected how this relationship might … vary across institutional contexts. This article investigates how unemployment benefits and minimum income benefits affect …
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unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the … absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is primarily a middle-class phenomenon: the unemployed are not …
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It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a 'race to the bottom'. This result may indeed hold in the case of factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the 'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor...
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In this paper I provide some support to the Tiebout hypothesis. It suggests that when a group of host countries faces an upward supply of immigrants, tax competition does not indeed lead to a race to the bottom; competition may lead to higher taxes than coordination. We identify a fiscal...
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