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Sticky prices, competition and the Phillips curve

Mikosch, Heiner Felix - 2012

weak competition. In line with the theory, prices of products, that face very strong competition, are also less likely to …

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Gateveys: An R toolbox for re-traceable aggregation of business tendency survey data

Bannert, Matthias - 2013

This paper describes how to use the R package gateveys to establish a transparent and reproducible aggregation work flow for longitudinal data stemming from business tendency surveys (BTS). Business tendency survey researchers are addressed in particular though the suggested work flow could also...

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Risk-sorting and preference for team piece rates

Bäker, Agnes; Mertins, Vanessa - 2012

Incentive schemes not only influence the effort provision of workers, but might also induce sorting. As drivers of self-selection, the literature mainly focuses on measures of productivity; however, other variables, such as preferences, beliefs and personality, also play a role. With this paper,...

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Profit sharing and relative consumption

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal … labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show that profit sharing can also represent a … Pareto-improvement if labour supply is excessive due to relative consumption effects. Mandatory profit sharing reduces wages …

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Unemployment benefits as redistribution scheme for trade gains: A positive analysis

de Pinto, Marco - 2012

wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a Melitz-type model of international trade with unionized labor markets and … UB: 1. wage tax, 2. profit tax, 3. payroll tax. …

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Union wage setting and international trade

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2012

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with two countries that differ in the centralization of union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases welfare and employment in both locations, and it raises...

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The redistribution of trade gains and the equity-efficiency trade-off

de Pinto, Marco - 2012

benefits (UB) either financed by a wage tax, a payroll tax or a profit tax paid by exporters only. Using a Melitz … schemes in terms of welfare level: 1. UB financed by a profit tax paid by exporters, 2. UB financed by a wage tax, 3. UB …

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Relative consumption concerns or non-monotonic preferences?

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

We conduct a classroom survey to investigate the willingness to sacrifice consumption in absolute terms in order to ascend above others in terms of consumption levels. In contrast to other studies using survey methodologies, participants are divided into a treatment and a control group. This...

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Failure of ad valorem and specific tax equivalence under uncertainty

Goerke, Laszlo; Herzberg, Frederik; Upmann, Thorsten - 2012

Applying a framework of perfect competition under uncertainty, we contribute to the discussion of whether or not ad valorem taxes and specific taxes are equivalent. While this equivalence holds without price uncertainty, we show that ad valorem taxes and specific taxes are almost never...

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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, the tax base. A higher taxable income, in...

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