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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: what are the driving forces?

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …

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Will the (German) NAIRU Please Stand up?

Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …

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Tax Progressivity and the Trade Union's Fallback-Option

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is …

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Green tax reform and employment: the interaction of profit and factor taxes

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons

Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics: a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? A CGE Analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous …

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