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Promotion rat race and public policy
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2012
This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281802
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Promotion Rat Race and Public Policy
Bjertnaes, Geir - CESifo - 2012
This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540727
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Promotion rat race and public policy
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678268
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Promotion rat race and public policy
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2012
; promotions ; status ; taxation … excess effort is neutralized by the welfare cost connected to an increase in the number of career workers. -- tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518222
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Promotion Rat Race and Public Policy
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2012
This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107554
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014
of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any … sensitive, and conclude with a tentative evaluation of the welfare benefits of progressive taxation in tournament economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398279
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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014
of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any … sensitive, and conclude with a tentative evaluation of the welfare benefits of progressive taxation in tournament economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394004
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any … sensitive, and conclude with a tentative evaluation of the welfare benefits of progressive taxation in tournament economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886142
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Knight Fever - Towards an Economics of Awards
Frey, Bruno S. - 2021
Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive. The demand for awards relies on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318541
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Relative consumption and tax evasion
Goerke, Laszlo - 2013
Relative consumption effects or status concerns that feature jealousy (in the sense of Dupor and Liu, AER 2003) boost … consumption expenditure. If consumption is financed by labour income, such status considerations increase labour supply and, hence … optimally. -- income taxes ; optimal taxation ; relative consumption ; tax evasion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691693