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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may adopt either individualized or collective wage...

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Nice Guys Finish Last: Are People with Higher Tax Morale Taxed More Heavily?

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Fuest, Clemens; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale … predicts that 'nice guys finish last': groups with higher tax morale will be taxed more heavily, simply because taxing them is … support for this hypothesis. Income groups with high tax morale systematically face higher average and marginal tax rates. …

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Time to Vote?

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Stillman, Steven; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to validated national election survey data from New...

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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...

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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding the determinants of tax morale can help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a cross-country approach – which has not been investigated...

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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education

Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing...

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Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance

Fabre, Alice; Pallage, Stéphane; Zimmermann, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with a universal basic income (UBI) system in an economy with idiosyncratic shocks to employment. Both policies provide a safety net in the face of idiosyncratic shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do...

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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives

Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country, emphasizing the political economy implications. In particular, we are interested on what happens to enrollment in public schools and the quality of education in these schools. Our...

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Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America

López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...

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Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse

Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...

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