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Fair Earnings Tax Reforms
Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik; Serruys, Hannes - 2023
We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...
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Collective bargaining about corporate social responsibility
Goerke, Laszlo; Paulus, Nora - 2024
If a profit-maximising firm credibly commits to an employment-enhancing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objective in negotiations with a trade union, the union can reduce its wage demands. Lower wages, ceteris paribus, raise profits, while the increase in employment enhances the payoff of...
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Using Government Programs to Encourage Employment, Increase Earnings, and Grow the Economy
Haskins, Ron - 2018
There has been a steady decline over six decades in the share of adult men in the labor force. After five decades of historic increases, in 2000 the share of women in the labor force peaked and has declined slightly since. The 1996 welfare reform law imposed work requirements on mothers on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931752
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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration
Euwals, Rob - 2021
In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the 'immigration surplus', which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...
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Collective bargaining about corporate social responsibility
Goerke, Laszlo; Paulus, Nora - 2024
If a profit-maximising firm credibly commits to an employment-enhancing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objective in negotiations with a trade union, the union can reduce its wage demands. Lower wages, ceteris paribus, raise profits, while the increase in employment enhances the payoff of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505808
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Fiscal policy in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Desilus, Bendreff - 2020
employment, and reducing inequality through more egalitarian income distribution. Over the past 30 years, developing countries … income inequality and its negative effects on economic growth. Over the past decade, fiscal policy has been adopted for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610188
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Fiscal policy in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Desilus, Bendreff - 2020
employment, and reducing inequality through more egalitarian income distribution. Over the past 30 years, developing countries … income inequality and its negative effects on economic growth. Over the past decade, fiscal policy has been adopted for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242942
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The sustainability wage gap
Krüger, Philipp; Metzger, Daniel; Wu, Jiaxin - 2020
A large literature documents a positive correlation between a firm's sustainability or ESG policies and firm value. However, the exact mechanism through which this relation arises remains ambiguous and it is often hard to establish the direction of causation. In this paper we propose and test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487744
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The effect of income on mortality : new evidence for the absence of a causal link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295560
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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …
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