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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793964
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799513
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Cross-country connectedness in inflation and unemployment: measurement and macroeconomic consequences
Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2021
inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491801
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Cross-Country Connectedness in Inflation and Unemployment : Measurement and Macroeconomic Consequences
Pham, Binh Thai; Sala, Hector - 2021
inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236402
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Sharing the burden? : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence ; conference paper
Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337203
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Sharing the burden : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
This study assesses the burden of capital income tax passed onto labor through wage bargaining over economic rents, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover the universe of corporations subject to corporate income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009390287
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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour : Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2021
We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317227
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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439693
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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Germany : a dynamic panel approach using regional data
Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - 2002
Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414213
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Factor shares, the price markup, and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor
Raurich-Puigdevall, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla i … - 2011
In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these assumptions, proposes a time-series calculation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422480