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quantitative importance of fiscal foresight. We investigate whether JCTCs affect employment growth before, at, and after the time … difference-in-difference regression framework applied to monthly panel data on employment, the JCTC effective and legislative …
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quantitative importance of fiscal foresight. We investigate whether JCTCs affect employment growth before, at, and after the time … difference-in-difference regression framework applied to monthly panel data on employment, the JCTC effective and legislative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965391
The unemployment rate is expected to average 10.2 percent for 2010, 9.1 percent for 2011, and 7.3 percent for 2012. With this in mind, this Issue Brief describes a job sharing tax credit, designed to provide a quick and substantial boost to the economy. It would use tax dollars to pay firms to...
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Economists are increasingly coming to the recognition that the current downturn is likely to be longer and more severe than they had expected at the time the last stimulus package was approved in February. As a result, there is likely to be interest in additional stimulus in order to boost the...
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Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased … hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent …
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Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such …
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We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage …-level youth employment, though some important caveats apply. Our results prompt a re-evaluation of the (sometimes contradictory …) existing literature on the employment effects of the ETI: we judge that, in light of our findings, there is insufficient …
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-in-difference estimation reveals no significant employment effects of the minimum wage introduction. We test for alternative adjustment …
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This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … employment. These decisions are strongly interrelated: Firms that increased prices relatively more often also showed a less … negative employment response. The relative importance of both adjustment margins is associated with product market competition …
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We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage …-level youth employment, though some important caveats apply. Our results prompt a re-evaluation of the (sometimes contradictory …) existing literature on the employment effects of the ETI: we judge that, in light of our findings, there is insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705316