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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor...

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In-Work Benefi ts and Unemployment

Tonin, Mirco; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment,compared to a framework in which wages …

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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?

Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 …

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …

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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles

Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget …

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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market:First Results from the Euro Experiment

Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects ofdifferent labor market institutions on macroeconomic …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and outputvolatility. The eurozone … labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they donot seem to have much of an effect on inflation …

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Trade and Unemployment:What Do the Data Say?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using:(i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures … institutions do notappear to condition the effect of openness.... …

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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment inEuropean Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions,Governance, Immigrants, and Growth

Hazans, Mihails - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employmentwithout a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment …

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Informal Workers Across Europe:Evidence from 30 Countries

Hazans, Mihails - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...

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Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supplyto a Firm: What Evidence Is There for Monopsony?

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from theHousehold, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of thiselasticity is of particular interest not only in its own right but also because of its relevance tothe debate about the...

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