Search Results - subject:"LABOUR INCOME"

Intra-household labour income responses to changes in tax rates among older workers

Messacar, Derek - 2017

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Let’s Take Bargaining Models Seriously:The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer unionpower from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of unionstrength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union powerwas relatively...

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Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to theFalling Labour Share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor inthe evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UKand Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labourdemand and Gini coefficient...

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Tax policy and employment: How does the Swedish system fare?

Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2011

This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the … elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on …

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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011

This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labour demand and Gini coefficient...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278673

Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011

This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labour demand and Gini coefficient...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286279

Income taxes, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital

Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - 2011

We study a two-sector economy with investments in human and physical capital and imperfect labor markets. Human and physical capital are heterogeneous. Workers and firms endogenously select the sector they are active in and choose the amount of their sector-specific investments. To enter the...

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The Impact of Gender on Mid-Career Labour Income: The Case of Bulgaria

Stoilova, Rumiana; Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Kotzeva, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The impact assessment of education and gender on mid-career labour income in a transitional economy could provide for … attempt to find an answer to the question: How education and gender determine mid-career labour income? We estimate the …

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Humanisterna och den svenska arbetsmarknaden

Boguslaw, Julia; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2011

degrees deteriorated compared to those with degrees in other fields. The average yearly labour income is low for all levels of …

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The Impact of Labour Income Risk on Household Saving Decisions in Turkey (Turkiye'de Isgucu Geliri Riskinin Hanehalki Tasarruf Kararlari Uzerindeki Etkisi)

Ceritoglu, Evren - Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası - 2011

income risk as a proxy variable for future labour income uncertainty. Individual disposable income is interacted with the … probability of being unemployed and with the probability of job-loss in the next period to generate the labour income risk … variables. The econometric results support the precautionary saving hypothesis and labour income risk emerges as one of the main …

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