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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...

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The past and future of work : how history can inform the age of automation

Schneider, Benjamin; Vipond, Hillary - 2023

overview of the current debates around the potential effects of impending labor-replacing innovation. We then summarize …

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Subsidizing extra jobs : promoting employment by taming the unions

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2007

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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.

De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

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The pro-competitive consequences of trade in frictional labor markets

Firooz, Hamid - 2023

What are the pro-competitive consequences of trade in frictional labor markets? This paper develops and estimates a … and frictions in labor markets has important implications for aggregate as well as distributional consequences of trade …. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …

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A competitive model of worker replacement and wage rigidity

Snell, Andy; Thomas, Jonathan P.; Wang, Zhewei - 2014

downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a … range of shocks labor hoarding occurs while wages are cut. We argue these features are consistent with recent evidence. …

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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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Venture capital investment and labor market performance : a panel data analysis

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2002

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the … literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and … investments have explanatory power with respect to labor market performance across countries and over time. In particular, the …

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